As a Canadian tech worker, fuck this. I get paid 'market rate' which is substantially less than my American peers.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-real...
>Canada’s population growth will likely slow from its current frantic pace as immigration officials work through the pandemic backlog of applications, but not by all that much. Barring a vast improvement in productivity, Canada’s per-capita GDP – and our standard of living – appear headed for an outright decline.
TBH I don’t know why some places even bother hiring American devs. Canucks are half-priced and I can’t tell the difference working with a mix of US and Canadian employees.
I worked for a company with a Canadian arm and we had very few Canucks in development roles, and the few we had were Quebecois, and they were acqui-hired. Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate.
That simply isn’t true.
Absolutely not true. I just left an American company composed of 1/3rd Canadians and none have demonstrated an interest in relocating. I could go into the many reasons why that might be, but things would get pretty political pretty quickly...
America isn't the murderous hellscape that many Canadians think it is.
I was making great money compared to my local peers. But compared to my American colleagues I was making half.
If my CoL is higher living in the Bay Area I would then expect to be compensated for that , and that seems fair .
Even when paid higher the quality of life and net savings people living in high CoL areas have are considerably less than in low CoL so am not sure it is better to have the higher compensation
Generally not possible for the average Canadian unless they've got 80% percentile tech skills, and/or did some time working in the US.
Not sure why it isn't more common, even if salaries stay roughly equal (after conversion to CAD), there is tremendous savings to be had just in health insurance costs alone.