Why are salaries lower in Canada than they are in the US for the same jobs?

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Drastically smaller market, lack of strong regulation that led to a few oligopolies controlling many industries, importing cheap labour to suppress wages, lack of innovation, brain drain of top talent and enterpreneurs to the US etc

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Taxes

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They are much lower even before taxes are considered

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More competition both at company and employee level ensuring only best companies survive and the best talent gets the highest pay.

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Healthcare is free from the govt in Canada versus US!

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bdw recent innovation came out of Canada is research behind CHATGPT. research of "Attention is all you need" on which chatgpt is based on was done by University of Toronto folk.

I am planning to leave Canada because organisations don't pay competitive salary but deduct taxes as if they are paying better than US.

It's not across all industries.

Consulting pay packets are smaller because the market is smaller, with typically smaller and fewer projects and clients.

Compare the F500 businesses with equivalents in Canada—there will be far fewer of those.

We are back office

Because majority of businesses are from the US, higher taxes in canada and free Healthcare although lower quality compared to the US

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