Only anecdata, but...<p>Back in 2010-2011, everybody I knew in Vancouver was earning ~45-60k after graduation (With multiple semesters of co-op experience). No stock, no bonuses, maybe a bit of RRSP matching. I was an outlier at ~95k CAD (At an investment bank).<p>Eight months later, I got an offer from Google for ~180k USD total comp.<p>Since then, only three people from my school that I know have broken 100k CAD - one of them works for Amazon, one of them worked for SAP for a decade, and one of them gets paid in USD.<p>The cost of rent in Vancouver is not as high as SF, but the cost of home ownership may as well be. Single-family homes at a 40-minute commute are north of half-a-million, and a home in Vancouver proper will run you more then a million.<p>I hear things are better out east, but I don&#x27;t want to spend a third of my life living in a frozen hellscape.