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Canadian compensation for Google engineers AFAIK is about 60%-70% what it is in the Bay Area.

• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Base compensation, or GSUs? My base compensation was only maybe 1/3rd of my total comp.
  • tylerhou 3y ago
    Total, and for L3/L4. But this was my impression a few years ago; Google has changed comp a fair bit since then (e.g. vesting schedule).
    • cmrdporcupine 3y ago
      It was worsening before I left (end of 2021). But relative to anybody else in Canada it was very high, and competitive with plenty of US companies, though yes, not quite as high as Google in MTV. Around 2014 I recall a spreadsheet making the rounds that people voluntarily and anonymously submitted to, and it showed, yes, about 3/4 the total comp. But if you live in Kitchener-Waterloo like most SWEs do, that was an incredible package as housing costs there were about half of Toronto's. In general since then all salaries in Canada have not come close to keeping pace with the broken cost of living / housing price bubble here.