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I'm not the grandparent post, but, my salary in Canada was $80K starting in 2000, and is up to $160K now. I've been making more than double the median wage in
by throwawaycan420 9y ago
I'm not the grandparent post, but, my salary in Canada was $80K starting in 2000, and is up to $160K now.
I've been making more than double the median wage in my city for the last 20 years or so.
- minwcnt5 9y ago$80K CAD is $59K USD, which is not that much different than the original post. $160K CAD = $119K USD is fairly good, but most developers with 17 years experience would take home north of $200K in Silicon Valley (I'm not familiar with other US markets). All the anecdotes still seem to point to software engineers making more than double in the US. I would love to return to Canada some day, but I'm not likely to do so until the numbers I see people post online start beginning with at least a 2 or 3.
- tostitos1979 9y agoExactly. A USD 200K software eng simply cannot move to Canada. It is messed up. That is more than a director or higher's salary in a place like Toronto.
- anuj_nm 9y agoIf you're living in Canada, you're spending money in CAD. I don't think its fair to convert Canadian salaries to USD to make the comparison. Still, $160K CAD is considerably less than $200K USD.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoIf you are living in Canada, everything retail is more expensive anyways, so just converting to USD isn't very accurate.
- acchow 9y ago$160k CAD = $120k USD. And you have 20 years experience? If you are good, you could be making 4x this in the Bay Area. Or more,