> When was this? About 10 years ago, at the time the minimum wage was around $9/hr to $10/hr or so. Adjusted for inflation it'd be around $13.78 in today's mon

> When was this? About 10 years ago, at the time the minimum wage was around $9/hr to $10/hr or so. Adjusted for inflation it'd be around $13.78 in today's money. > As an aside - what leads to a talented individual doing dev for $11/hr CAD? I'm not able to conjure up a scenario where that is the case other than they were working for their own startup ... ? They were freshly graduated, with low cost of living at that time. But like many new graduates, were having difficulty getting that first job, which caused a measure of desperation. Throw in the fact that the problem domain we were working on at the time was genuinely interesting, and it's not too difficult to convince yourself that kind of money isn't so bad. At least for a while.