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Originally Posted by blankall
So like I said before, if you want to move to Calgary and make a crap load of money working oil and gas, yes that's a possibility. If you're working in any other field of law besides oil and gas, the rates are comparable, but slightly higher in Calgary. Pay rates in Calgary are slightly higher than anywhere else in Canada though.
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This is an odd classification... As far as I know, only one large firm in Calgary has an "oil and gas" department and even that is a marketing term for "corporate". Everyone else has the same departments as in any other city - litigation, securities, corporate, regulatory, tax, financial services. It's not as if you're in Calgary doing some extremely specific "oil and gas" practice area. Your clients just happen to be companies whose business relates to oil and gas - which in itself is varied enough; from exploration to extraction to midstream to downstream to services. In Vancouver, in contrast, your clients are largely mining companies. There may be slightly more diversity as to the kinds of issues you see but it's still the same practice area in Van as in Calgary. The difference between doing a prospectus for A Calgary O&G company listing on the TSXV isn't that different in reality compared to the equivalent job in Vancouver. And this is just the corporate side; if you're in litigation you see about as much variety as anywhere.