This may not be true. But levels.fyi seems to show a dramatic difference in pay between Canadian Software Developers and American Software Developers. I'm just curious if anyone has insights as to why this may be? Does Canada just have a significantly cheaper cost of living? Any insights appreciated. TC: $155k
Everyone pays Canadians less. While at Amazon, I wanted to move to Vancouver. But, decided not to. It's not worth taking a 120k pay cut for relocating to a city 150mi away
and 75% more expensive
It is not just Shopify, companies adjust bands based on COL. From what I have seen on average canadians make about 70% and latin america makes about 30-40% when compared to their US peers. Same company and role
It's never about CoL but demand and supply. Canada is a passport factory so there's no shortage.
All companies do this. The key word is "cost of labor", which is only somewhat correlated with cost of living.
It's just mind blowing to me that the same quality of employee makes so much less. From my understanding, Canada's cost of living isn't too far off from what it is in the United States. I could understand if it was significantly cheaper, but it doesn't seem to be.
It’s in fact more expensive in many places. Like a lot more
They pay less because they can. Canadian companies pay 💩. American companies in Canada know they can pay much less as well. I don’t think it has anything to do with COL
Because that’s how markets operate.
Basic economics. Your salary is about supply and demand. Not about “cost of living”. The CEO does not care about “pay equality”. He’s here to pay the least amount of money for the most profit.
Then why hire any Americans? They're a remote company and I know a ton of American's that work there. I know they need engineers, but why not just hire in Canada and not fork over the significant premium the American workers come with?
Well actually thats the future. Big companies moving their operations to lower cost countries bar the essential workers that forcefully need to be in a physical market. Its pure cost optimization. Ford has their IT center in India, HR in eastern europe, engineers across a multitude of cheap countries
Because JT is bringing thousands by the hour who will gladly take the 70k job available to them.
CA: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Shopify/salaries/Software-Engineer/L5/ US: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Shopify/salaries/Software-Engineer/L5/United-States/