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Originally Posted by AR_Six
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.
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If what you're saying is true, you'd expect the numbers across the board to reflect that. Is there more litigation work in Calgary? Are the billing rates different? What is driving this suppossed increase in salary across the board.
A person working in insurance litigation is arbitrarily going to be making twice as much in Calgary than Vancouver despite working comparable hours? And the line between O&G work and non O&G work is not arbitrary. It's a huge industry with a huge amount of billable hours. The larger companies have excessive amounts of money to spend on legal fees that companies in other industries don't. And no, the corporate work is not he same. You're dealing with major government and environmental issues you won't find in other industries.