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MayorGrom
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If that happens, there will be a major shortage of software devs. It's not a secret that majority of Canadians are moving to the states to make money; just to compare, a mid dev in Toronto will make 100k-130k (ignoring outliers like FAANG). The same dev in Seattle makes 160-200k USD with lower COL.NOC quota is probably the way for FSW. Checking myimmitracker you can clearly see that eg 2171, 2173 NOCs are overrepresented. Canada can decide to inflict a cap on those when a FSW draw happens. Provinces still can invite them separately if they need them.
On top of that, any software engineer will be eligible to apply as NOC 2173. That NOC is written very poor. Any backend, frontend, full stack, embedded, MLOps, Data engineer is eligible for that NOC. Most people specialize in one particular area but that NOC doesn't reflect that. 2171 is clear; it's IT (hardware related). 2172 is DBAs. However, 2173 is pretty broad.