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Its quite frustrating as a Canadian web-developer. There are plenty of remote jobs that I would qualify skill and experience wise in the US that are for 120K US
by andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
Its quite frustrating as a Canadian web-developer.
There are plenty of remote jobs that I would qualify skill and experience wise in the US that are for 120K USD. But they won't hire remote Canadians because its a hassle for some reason.
There are few Canadian companies that are remoting and generally they cap out at 70K. There are higher paying remoting jobs in Canada but to get them you have to do in-person networking to secure them.
I'm from Thunder Bay originally and honestly would prefer to live someone cheap but I'm forced back into the GTA because people want to have their head over your shoulder.
The only way to get about the 70K cap was to run my own firm, which brought in lots of money but was quite the chore to keep stable.
- pmiller2 9y agoThe flip side of this is an experience I had a while ago interviewing with a Canadian company for a remote position. Since I expected it to be an issue, I was up front with the interviewer that I needed a minimum of $X to pay my bills in the Bay Area and that I wasn't interested in moving. They were not willing to proceed, and told me that was the reason. I appreciated their candor, but it really turned me (as an American) off of Canadian companies.
- thirdsun 9y agoIsn't that kind of expected? I assume very few companies can provide the salary that is needed to support living in the bay area and I guess most of them are probably located in the very same region, the bay area.
- farnsworthy 9y agoI'd keep looking, as I regularly see remote positions that will hire only in either the "US and Canada," or "North America."
- linguist_1 9y agoWe had so many Canadians applying for remote jobs at the last company I worked at. Honestly they got treated just like the "Indian Undergraduate Internship" [1] mails my old lab used to get. Piped straight to dev/null. The fact that couldn't even qualify for a US visa was a big red flag in terms of qualification. [1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-behind-the-indian-undergrad-research-experience-spam https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41687/what-is-b...