Isn't this true for all provinces? A friend of mine is a government medical researcher in Alberta, so he makes good money, but is hardly what I would call "rich," at least not in the SV sense. Still, his salary is posted online.

I think this goes overboard: a min/mean/median/max for each job title would be good enough to know where I stand in a salary negotiation. I also like Ms. Zaloom's idea from the article to share salaries among close friends and family.