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Please explain more about how your compensation works in CA - I'm genuinely curious as a tech worker interested in relocating from the US.

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Canadians simply make less. At a large, well-known company my partner works for they can trade one US req for two Canadian reqs.

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.

Canada's talent market is smaller, by a lot.

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.

> Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate.

That simply isn’t true.

> Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate.

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...

I don’t think most Canadians want to migrate to the US. Some do, but most Canadians don’t see the US with good eyes. Especially because of the price of healthcare and the guns.

I've sure seen it happen a lot though. I think it helps when they visit the midwest and see that traffic is so much nicer here and realize that the whole gun violence thing is grossly overhyped in their media. Then they look at the housing and realize that the can afford a house that's twice the size for half the price in a great neighborhood. Oh, and you get a raise -- a big one.

America isn't the murderous hellscape that many Canadians think it is.

Sure, I’m just saying it isn’t some sort of Canadian dream to move south

I couldn't agree more. Canada is a perfect place for near-shoring: high quality, cheap labour with none of the timezone or language issues. It's mystifying why we don't see more demand.

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