Data Scientist Salary in Canada during 2025

💰 The median Data Scientist Salary in Canada during 2025 is USD 128,600

✏️ This salary info is based on 42 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average Data Scientist salary lies between USD 100,000 and USD 184,000 in Canada. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Data Scientist
Experience
all levels
Region
Canada
Salary year
2025
Sample size
42
Top 10%
$ 253,000
Top 25%
$ 184,000
Median
$ 128,600
Bottom 25%
$ 100,000
Bottom 10%
$ 68,700

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Data Scientist roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with Data Scientist job listings are Python, Machine Learning and Statistics. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 2389 jobs Machine Learning | 2216 jobs Statistics | 1764 jobs SQL | 1733 jobs Engineering | 1660 jobs Computer Science | 1252 jobs R | 1134 jobs Mathematics | 1067 jobs ML models | 1065 jobs Research | 1028 jobs AWS | 902 jobs Deep Learning | 781 jobs Data analysis | 776 jobs Testing | 757 jobs LLMs | 682 jobs GCP | 666 jobs Data visualization | 653 jobs TensorFlow | 629 jobs Pipelines | 615 jobs NLP | 605 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Data Scientist roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Data Scientist job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 2054 jobs Health care | 927 jobs Startup environment | 658 jobs Flex hours | 645 jobs Equity / stock options | 635 jobs Competitive pay | 626 jobs Insurance | 611 jobs Salary bonus | 497 jobs Flex vacation | 408 jobs Team events | 392 jobs Parental leave | 371 jobs Medical leave | 339 jobs Wellness | 224 jobs 401(k) matching | 219 jobs Conferences | 124 jobs Relocation support | 93 jobs Transparency | 88 jobs Fitness / gym | 83 jobs Home office stipend | 74 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 64 jobs

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