01Salary report

Frontend Engineer salary in Toronto.

Live salary data from Adzuna, calibrated against Hustle Report member submissions. Updated daily.

02Distribution

The 25 / 50 / 75 percentile band.

25th percentile

CA$86,000

Median (50th)

CA$117,000

Calibrated estimate

75th percentile

CA$155,000

Percentiles describe a snapshot of advertised salaries. Real take-home depends on tax band, pension contributions and bonuses. Hustle Report members can plug their actual numbers into the in-app calculator for a precise picture.

03Market context

Frontend Engineer market in Toronto.

Frontend engineering pay has bifurcated by accessibility and design-system fluency. Engineers who can own a multi-product design system, ship accessible interfaces and write fast SSR Next.js code sit firmly in the top quartile. Pure JSX-and-CSS frontend roles have softened.

Toronto specifically: Toronto is Canada's largest tech and financial services market, with a strong concentration of US tech satellite offices (Google, Stripe, Shopify HQ). Salaries are quoted in CAD and trail US equivalents by 25-40% — but the market for cross-border remote work has narrowed that gap rapidly since 2022.

04Side income on top

Members in this role typically add CA$13,000/year.

Modeled on a conservative 4 hours/week of contract work at the role's implied hourly equivalent (CA$65/hr). The Hustle Report Monday editorial finds the briefs and ranks them by fit so the time stays small.

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