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Mind, salaries often tend to be indexed to the local cost of living. So you could have a pretty decent standard of living even if your nominal salary is a bit l
by Kim_Bruning 2y ago
Mind, salaries often tend to be indexed to the local cost of living. So you could have a pretty decent standard of living even if your nominal salary is a bit lower.
- rangestransform 2y agoCanada (in my case, specifically UBC) has piss low grad student stipends, even relative to local CoL. I was making full time minimum wage as an undergrad researcher, and my PI told me that he was still paying me more than his PhD students (2500/mo for me vs. 2000/mo). I dunno how someone could live in Vancouver on that salary without savings or additional scholarships
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoCanada is an exception to this trend, unfortunately.
- refurb 2y agoCanada’s COL is an exception. Wages are about half of the US yet in places like Toronto the COL is super high. These profs likely negotiated a fat payday. It happens all the time - profs move from Harvard, Stanford, Yale to less prestigious schools because they’ll get something they otherwise can’t get - tenure, head of a school, more money, whatever. Considering this move would have taken months to negotiate it likely has nothing to do with politics at all.
- ripley12 2y agoFrom the article: "Of course our American catastrophe played a role in our final decision." "My decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States." "Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves... bracketing the American descent into fascism."