> So tell me why don't multinational companies pay less to their American engineers, the same as their Canadian engineers? Because their American engineers wou

> So tell me why don't multinational companies pay less to their American engineers, the same as their Canadian engineers? Because their American engineers would get better offers from other companies and leave? I think it's pretty simple: Canadian companies feel like they don't have to pay American market rates for people, when Canadian market rates for the same position are much lower. They can't do this AND complain that employees are being poached by American companies who pay them more. Either accept that by paying "market rate" in Canada you're in real danger of having employees leave to work in America, or pay your Canadian employees an equivalent salary to what they would make in America and they're far less likely to jump ship.