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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by minwcnt5 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:51PM (#14161239)
$80K CAD is $59K USD, which is not that much different than the original post. $160K CAD = $119K USD is fairly good, but most developers with 17 years experience would take home north of $200K in Silicon Valley (I'm not familiar with other US markets).

All the anecdotes still seem to point to software engineers making more than double in the US. I would love to return to Canada some day, but I'm not likely to do so until the numbers I see people post online start beginning with at least a 2 or 3.

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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by tostitos1979 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:22PM (#14162086)
Exactly. A USD 200K software eng simply cannot move to Canada. It is messed up. That is more than a director or higher's salary in a place like Toronto.
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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by anuj_nm on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:40AM (#14163733)
If you're living in Canada, you're spending money in CAD. I don't think its fair to convert Canadian salaries to USD to make the comparison. Still, $160K CAD is considerably less than $200K USD.
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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by seanmcdirmid on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:48AM (#14163766)
If you are living in Canada, everything retail is more expensive anyways, so just converting to USD isn't very accurate.
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