Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center
by 52-6F-62 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:45PM
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You're listing two companies that are veritable unicorns in Toronto. There are a handful of successful mid-level companies like those in the city, and tens of thousands of hungry developers earning far less at non-technologically focused companies.
The average Torontonian (in any field) earns ~$50-70k and costs here are quite high still, even if they trail San Francisco by ~30%.
To wit: on that average salary you certainly won't starve, but pick one: save money, buy a car, have a child (and that might be a stretch).
Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center
by r-s on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:58PM
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For reference: $96,600 CAD == $71,718 USD
Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center
by tensor on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:43AM
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Sure, but most of these sky high US salaries are in the bay area. So consider that the cost of living is roughly double there:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center
by FreedomToCreate on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:37PM
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Note that is at the current exchange rate
Software Developer $80,947 Software Engineer $96,600
500px https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/500px-Salaries-E600778.htm Software Engineer $93,333
The averages are pulled down by lots of mediocre companies. Startups and big places like Google and IBM have salaries that are nowhere close to your numbers. Couple this with taxes here being much much lower than say the bay area, and you are doing really well living here.