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These 9 Jobs In Montreal Pay Up To $150,000 & They're Hiring Now

From IT to civil engineering, there's a job out there for everyone!

The downtown area of Montreal as seen from Mont Royal.

The downtown area of Montreal as seen from Mont Royal.

Staff Writer

The current economy may be questionable at best, but that doesn't mean companies aren't hiring for high-paying roles in Montreal, especially if you have certain valuable skills like speaking French, understanding computers or knowing how to do respiratory therapy on someone.

These nine jobs are active and open to Montrealers and pay very respectably for the amount of experience and education required to land them. If your present place of work is putting a freeze on hires or even raises, perhaps make a raise of your own by switching to a more lucrative career in one of the fields listed below.

Commercial insurance underwriter

Salary: $100,000 to $120,000 annually

Company: Zurich Canadian Holdings Limited

Who Should Apply: Bilingual underwriters with at least five years of experience might consider this role, which involves "evaluating new and renewal applications to determine insurance risks, insurance premiums, extent of coverage and other conditions."

Apply here

Chief civil engineer

Salary: $100,000 to $130,000 annually

Company: Application through TechnoGénie

Who Should Apply: Certified engineers who speak French and have more than a decade of experience in project management can consider this role, especially if you have an understanding of québécois transportation projects.

Apply here

Chief operating officer — financial, communications and other business services

Salary: $120,000 to $150,000 annually

Company: Tormon Executive Search Limited

Who Should Apply: This role requires mastery of French or English and five years of experience in business services.

Apply here

Comptroller

Salary: $100,000 annually

Company: Centre Sablon

Who Should Apply: French speakers with university degrees in accounting or a related field and at least five years of related experience can apply for this position, which requires knowledge of Excel (yes, including pivot tables).

Apply here

Respiratory therapist

Salary: $75 hourly

Company: Action Santé LC

Who Should Apply: Candidates for this job will need to speak French and hold a DEC in respiratory therapy techniques.

Apply here

Senior software developer

Salary: $138,086 annually

Company: SIA Innovations, Inc.

Who Should Apply: Bilingual software developers with at least seven years of full-stack development experience and three years of related managerial experience might consider this position.

Apply here

Data scientist

​Salary: $140,000 annually

Company: Intelli5 Inc.

Who Should Apply: People who speak French and hold a relevant Bachelor's degree should apply to this role, which requires five years of experience.

Apply here

Senior project engineer (electronic equipment)

Salary: $100,000 to $140,000 annually

Company: TECHNOGÉNIE RESSOURCES PLUS INC.

Who Should Apply: Fluently bilingual people with Bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering (or another relevant field) and at least ten years of experience in product architecture and electronic circuitry design should apply for this role.

Apply here

Financing and administration director

Salary: $100,000 annually

Company: SOCIETE DE DEVELOPPEMENT DES ENTREPRISES CULTURELLES

Who Should Apply: French speakers with at least seven years of experience as a manager, including business administration work and finance, should apply to this role, which involves managing a team of 18 people.

Apply here

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    Willa Holt (they/she) was a Creator for MTL Blog. They have edited for Ricochet Media and The McGill Daily, with leadership experience at the Canadian University Press. They have an undergraduate degree in anthropology with a minor in French translation, and they are the proud owner of a trilingual cat named Ivy.

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