[kspaans]

I studied at UWaterloo and had many internships from 2007-2010 for which I forget the pay I was making, but I remember all of my full-time amounts (I started with around 2 years of work experience):

2012-2013: RIM/Blackberry in Waterloo, Canada: CAD 70,000, no bonus or stock, 15 days of vacation or so, 40h per week, software developer

2014-2016: YourGolfTravel in London, UK: GBP 41,000 first year, GBP 43,000 second year, no bonus or stock, 20 days vacation or so, 40h per week, software developer

2016-2017: Green Chef in Mountain View, California: USD 125,000 first year, USD 135,000 when I got promoted to team lead in mid 2017, $8k worth of stock options (post round B I believe, ~0.04%), "unlimited vacation", really crap health insurance, 40h per week with some long days from being on-call with time-off-in-lieu given, software developer

2017-present: software developer & architect at TELUS digital in Toronto, Canada, for not less than I was paid in the US

[grecy]

> 2017-present: software developer & architect at TELUS digital in Toronto, Canada, for not less than I was paid in the US

Huh, it's good to know Telcos in Canada will pay Software People well.

I worked in Software for a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell and the IT staff were paid a tiny fraction of your US salary.

[WhatTelcoWages]

Unfortunately, it depends where in said telco you're working. As someone who works for the same telco as GP but in a different (non-telecom related) branch, people here get paid peanuts. TELUS Digital is an interesting case, since it's smaller, has more autonomy and is better-funded (when you divide by the number of employees, of course) than most other parts of the company. Want to work for any other branch? You're back to bottom-of-the-barrel salaries (not quite offset by other compensation), BigCo bureaucracy and a velocity rivaling that of molasses.

I happen to live in an only moderately-high CoL area too, not sure how people make ends meet in Vancouver, Toronto etc. on similar salaries. It's saying something when government orgs in the same industry are paying more (with better benefits to boot!)

[CanadaThrow87]

Burner accnt.

I worked in software in the media arm of Rogers (Toronto downtown HQ) and was also paid about half of what OP is getting at Telus...

No bonus. 2% increase a year pending a good review.

[kspaans]

TELUS digital is hiring! https://labs.telus.com/careers