Tech salaries in Canada are in line with other highly paid professionals - I make as much up here as a lawyer... it is true that I'm not looking at the 600k+options job postings you'd see in the SF bubble but I certainly make enough that daily costs aren't a stressor.

Canada is probably about due for a major wage correction though - the PSAC strikes are a pretty good indicator that it's time to either seriously consider 32/hr weeks or starting to claw back corporate excess... that's sort of an international issue though.

Tech salaries in Canada are similar to tech salaries in US backwaters. My hypothesis is that the primary reason is there is some virtuous cycle of access to capital bringing more tech workers to California which cause more tech companies to be created, which suck in more workers from elsewhere, which increase capital availability and the number of new companies created. If immigration policy reduces the amount of workers that can be pulled in too severely, this will slowly grind to a halt.

> There is a reason that tech salaries in Canada are much less than the States

And not everyone wants to make as much money as they can, while dealing with uncertainty.

Care to elaborate?