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Enjoy your poverty. Basement apartment for 3k a month, cost of food and everything else more expensive, taxed at 45% and even double taxed, so your 60-100k beco
by ChumpGPT 3y ago
Enjoy your poverty. Basement apartment for 3k a month, cost of food and everything else more expensive, taxed at 45% and even double taxed, so your 60-100k becomes more like 35k-55k. You will live paycheck to paycheck if you're lucky to find a job. California, NY, TX, etc are full of Canadian Tech workers that were lucky to escape.
What a joke....
- LASR 3y agoI am a Canadian tech worker clearing about C$400k/yr total comp as a Staff Eng. I pay $5k for my mortgage. Taxed once. I work for a SF company that has set up a Canadian arm of the business. Despite all that, it’s a bargain compared to Bay Area pay.
- avtar 3y agoSafe to say your salary is an anomaly in the Canadian tech landscape.
- bawolff 3y agoAs a staff eng? That is a fairly high rank. Doesn't sound that crazy.
- avtar 3y agoOthers can comment with their experience but my guess was informed by recent job searches and forums, albeit not for this title. Doing a search right now for a Staff Engineer in Toronto seems to hint at 180 - 200K CAD being the upper limit.
- ChumpGPT 3y agoYou are an outlier and only because you work for an American Company that pays you what they might pay locally in SF. Perhaps they don't know they could pay you 1/2 of that easily.... On a tangent what are you're taxes like, 52%?
- LASR 3y ago53.5% is the marginal rate. All cap gains are at the same rate. Net out, about 38% overall.
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- bawolff 3y ago> Basement apartment for 3k a month Even vancouver isn't the bad. But its a remote world, just live somewhere normal priced. > taxed at 45% and even double taxed Why would you be double taxed? Although the highest marginal rate is more than 45%. > so your 60-100k Pretty shitty tech job if that is all you are making.
- arroz 3y agoThere isn’t anywhere normal priced If you live away from civilization, and I mean really isolated, like 20 hours driving to get to a nice city, you are still gonna pay roughly 1000 dollars for a 1 bedroom apartment
- yberreby 3y agoHi. I live alone in downtown Montreal. I pay 999 CAD a month for a 1-bedroom apartment, sublet. This includes furniture, electricity, heat, Internet. I have friends who are renting a shared flat, works out to ~650 CAD / person, in a nice area (Plateau Mont Royal). I'm not claiming two data points are representative of the whole distribution, and things are not great at all in terms of inflation / the housing market is tough, but there's no need to resort to gross exaggerations.
- arroz 3y agoObviously shared doesn’t count, most people don’t share a place because they want to but rather because they need to Also, Quebec is cheaper than the rest of the country (probably because of language + anti immigration provincial agenda) I live in a city in the praries away from civilization and pay over 1000 dollars for a 1 bedroom
- yberreby 3y agoI do not mean to discount your experience; I'm simply disproving the assertion that there isn't anywhere normal priced. Montreal is a major city with a lot of tech companies and research activity, so I think it is worth mentioning as more than a simple counterexample.