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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by acchow on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:09AM (#14164055)
5 years ago when exchange rates were at parity, salaries were lower than they are now. You can't just take the present day $80k cad figure.
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Re:Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center by tempestn on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:18AM (#14164094)
Marginally lower; certainly not proportionally to the difference in exchange rates. Also note the CAD figure was $70k.

I haven't researched the historical averages and correlated them with exchange rates, but I have been employing software developers in Canada for around 8 years now and so have kept current on market rates. In my experience, currency fluctuations, even on the order of 25-30%, have very little impact on market salaries.

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