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Agreed, this is the elephant in the room and by far and away the primary cause of the tech exodus. In my experience compensation in the US (comparing major cit
by potatolicious 9y ago
Agreed, this is the elephant in the room and by far and away the primary cause of the tech exodus.
In my experience compensation in the US (comparing major cities to major cities) is 2-5x higher than in Canada. I'd hazard a guess and say I'm right now making 4x what my job would be paying in Canada.
Another big problem is that cost of living continues to rise in Canadian tech hubs - Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are all astronomically expensive relative to compensation, and costs continue to rise rapidly. Despite some upwards movement in recent years in tech salaries, the COL increases have often outpaced it.
To Canadian employers who are serious about reversing the brain drain: you have to find ways to pay talent more, everything else is just details.
- X86BSD 9y agoBut this is the problem everywhere. In the states that's the reason outsourcing is such a huge boner for companies. They refuse to pay the market rate for Americans who will not work six jobs in IT for the pay of one. So they then claim they can't get enough skilled American workers to fill their jobs so they outsource for cheap. It's been like this since at least the early 90s. They want a DBA, network engineer, security engineer, sysadmin, tech support in one person for the price of one of those jobs. When those are individual jobs. But they want you to do it all and pay you for only doing one of those jobs. It is rediculous. So that's why Canada and the US claim there are shortages, you are correct that it comes down to unrealistic salaries by companies. They simply need to realize how hard, and complex IT is and that they MUST pay more to get the talent to develop and maintain this insanely complex world of technology we are in.
- branchless 9y agoDisagree on Montreal. Cost of living here is good.