These Are The Foreign Languages To Know In Canada If You Want To Get A High-Paying Job

There's a new ranking that breaks down the foreign languages that get you a high-paying job in Canada.

If you know a language other than English or French, you could be missing out on a lot of money by not applying for positions that require foreign language skills.

Preply, a language learning platform, recently released a study that analyzed more than 360,000 job ads to figure out what the highest-paid foreign languages in Canada are in 2023.

Also, it revealed how much money Canadian companies will pay workers who get hired for positions that require knowledge of these languages.

German is the best-paid language in job ads across the country with an average salary of $131,918, according to Preply.

Bengali and Arabic ranked as the second and third highest-paid foreign languages. Salaries are $124,949 and $121,051 respectively.

Knowing Portuguese can get you an average salary of $112,751 and being able to speak Spanish can get you a job that pays $107,275 a year.

Jobs that require you to know Hindi pay $75,530 a year and positions that require Urdu pay $72,988.

Then, the rest of the best-paid foreign languages in Canada are:

• Punjabi, with an average salary of $68,434
• Italian, with an average salary of $52,106 a year
• Mandarin, with an average salary of $49,948

Even though this study didn't count French as a foreign language, Preply found that French-speaking jobs in Canada pay $113,097 on average.

It would rank as the fourth best-paid language in Canada if it had been included.

Locally, Spanish is the best-paid language for job ads in Toronto with an average salary of $92,966 a year.

Portuguese and Arabic ranked second and third overall for positions in the city, according to Preply.

If you're looking for jobs that require foreign language skills, it's not just companies in Canada that hire people who can speak foreign languages but the federal government as well.

Earlier this year, government of Canada jobs for Foreign Language Communications Analysts with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service were available.

You needed to be able to translate people Arabic, Somali, Farsi, Mandarin, Kurdish, Sorani, Russian, Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali or Spanish into English or French to get hired.

The salary for those positions ranged from $84,050 to $102,250 a year!

Also, there are government of Canada jobs open right now for people who know English and French, including translation positions with the Public Service Commission of Canada and Public Services and Procurement Canada.

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