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Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by overgryphon »

beagle3 wrote: post #85
activepeanut wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vancouver is more expensive than Seattle.

.... maybe the ACA is changing that, but it used to be true only as long as you did not need non-trivial healthcare services.

Health care is generally included on top of salary in the US, so Canadian health care wouldn't be a consideration for engineers working at established companies.

Even significant health costs per month are ignored in a corporate environment in the US, though small startups may be different. For entrepreneurs, health care costs would matter before the company was large enough to have figured out benefits.

Any startup employees\founders willing to comment on how health insurance is generally handled at US startups?

Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by justinhj »

lazyant wrote: post #116
pugsawakening wrote: post #15

I'm currently a beneficiary of SRED in a startup context in Canada. The first thing to note is that it doesn't solve many major problems. The lack of development talent is the biggest one; trying to get someone to move from California to Canada isn't something that's solved as simply as offering more money. And in my experience (as a recent graduate), the talent that would have studied computer science or has an inte…

Lack of talent or lack of US-comparable salaries? A lot of U of Waterloo people get snatched by American companies, I bet if we paid them about the same many would stay here.

This is true. We have two recent Waterloo students on the payroll (in Vancouver), both of whom had options in SF (or anywhere they wanted really)

Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by giarc »

gotrecruit wrote: post #119

I'm moving to Vancouver, BC soon to found a startup, so it's good to hear this. But from comments here, i'm hearing a lot of comments pertaining to Toronto and Waterloo region, but not much about Vancouver or BC in general. Why is that? Is Vancouver/BC not a good place for startups? Am I heading in the wrong direction? I'm still in a position to switch back to Toronto if necessary, so if someone can enlighten me that…

The Waterloo region is popular because of U Waterloo (a tech heavy school) and RIM. However, it won't be hard to convince people to move to Vancouver, it's warmer there.

Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by giarc »

danpat wrote: post #112
Danieru wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't happen to be working at that Sport Fitness Accessory company in Canmore eh?

Nope, I run http://skitrails.info/ What sports fitness accessory company? It's a pretty small town, I probably know them....

Nice site. I'll keep this for next year.

Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by notlefthanded »

toblender wrote: post #129
calgaryeng wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"[...] In Quebec, you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you went to an engineering school [...]" That is actually true in most (all?) provinces.

Yes it is true in most provinces, especially in Ontario.

"part of their order" is a very important part of that.

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Post by aianus »

nivertech wrote: post #109
nl wrote: post #82

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I made 2-3x as much by moving to California and then another integer coefficient greater than one when I moved to New York. I don't understand this. If the "average" engineer in SV makes 120Kish, then the same engineer is making 40K in Canada? And they can make 240K in NY (with no additional experience)? Are those number correct? If they are: I'd note that salaries in Australia are more closely aligned with SV salari…

I think they talking about after tax numbers

Not at all. Starting salary in Canada is $45-70k and I know at least four people who made north of $150k in total comp their first year out of school in SV. The interns in SV make more than some senior engineers in Canada.

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Post by aianus »

ripb wrote: post #104
naterator wrote: post #86

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I think it's a very valid criticism if your best people (not talking about "most" people, who don't start companies and create new stuff) can easily move to another country (or other state inside the US) and earn WAY more for the same job or skill set. It's not a valid criticism if the gov. footing 80% allows these companies to now offer SV/NY competitive salaries. Which I suspect will happen if they do it right (bot…

>I think it's a very valid criticism if your best people (not talking about "most" people, who don't start companies and create new stuff) can easily move to another country (or other state inside the US) and earn WAY more for the same job or skill set. I think, what a lot Americans overlook, is that most people in the rest of developed world want more from life than a high salary. Moving from somewhere with the high…

I've lived in both and while I love Toronto, NYC is the greatest city on the planet. It's not really comparable.

Re: Canada's Pitch to Tech Entrepreneur: We'll Pay 80% of Your Salaries

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Post by allengeorge »

pugsawakening wrote: post #15

I'm currently a beneficiary of SRED in a startup context in Canada. The first thing to note is that it doesn't solve many major problems. The lack of development talent is the biggest one; trying to get someone to move from California to Canada isn't something that's solved as simply as offering more money. And in my experience (as a recent graduate), the talent that would have studied computer science or has an inte…

I would have stayed, but there were (and still are) very few companies offering jobs in the technical areas I'm interested in, which is sad.
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