本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛80K in Seattle is not a bad salary. You will find many people are earning surprising low income in US.
My point is: US job market does not have the high salary as you expected. MS used to have very bad salary (35K in mid-90's). But now it's giving competitive compensation because the stock option means nothing nowadays. I heard Cisco and HP have really bad reputation in salary. Such as 80K in Sillicon Valley. But no evidence so far.
According to your story, I understand your point. People had hard time during these years in Toronto's job market. If people only earn 40K in Toronto, yes, they can try to ask for 80K at most of US cities in west or east coast, or even more. However, you will also find that it's hard to get a job with more than 85-90K (permanent). Again, I'm talking about people using TN1, not local people with green card and US experience.
Going to US likes our going to Canada a few years ago. It's re-shuffling the cards. I was earning about 90K in Canada. This number did help me a little bit to get a "matching" salary, but no more. What I can choose is to find a city with low living expense. As I mentioned, there's "ceiling" for technical jobs in each city.
The good news is: there's still some room for us to get better compensation after we got green card or something. There're currently 2 challenges for us TN holders:
1) We need a stable work permission
2) We need local working experience
Anyway, US is a paradise of career for people in Canada. It's not because the salary will be much higher. It's because there're many job opportunities. Too many, from a canadian point of view.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
My point is: US job market does not have the high salary as you expected. MS used to have very bad salary (35K in mid-90's). But now it's giving competitive compensation because the stock option means nothing nowadays. I heard Cisco and HP have really bad reputation in salary. Such as 80K in Sillicon Valley. But no evidence so far.
According to your story, I understand your point. People had hard time during these years in Toronto's job market. If people only earn 40K in Toronto, yes, they can try to ask for 80K at most of US cities in west or east coast, or even more. However, you will also find that it's hard to get a job with more than 85-90K (permanent). Again, I'm talking about people using TN1, not local people with green card and US experience.
Going to US likes our going to Canada a few years ago. It's re-shuffling the cards. I was earning about 90K in Canada. This number did help me a little bit to get a "matching" salary, but no more. What I can choose is to find a city with low living expense. As I mentioned, there's "ceiling" for technical jobs in each city.
The good news is: there's still some room for us to get better compensation after we got green card or something. There're currently 2 challenges for us TN holders:
1) We need a stable work permission
2) We need local working experience
Anyway, US is a paradise of career for people in Canada. It's not because the salary will be much higher. It's because there're many job opportunities. Too many, from a canadian point of view.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net