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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Last time I did a fairly deep compare of Federal/VA vs Federal/AB, a single person making 6 figures paid a little more in the US. If you're married with a couple kids, and own a house, then there are a lot of deductions that bring the US taxes significantly lower.
You picked some expensive US cities for comparisons. Cost of living in mid sized cities in the US tend to be quite a bit lower than Calgary in my experience and there are plenty of good job opportunities in them. Also things like IT work is moving more and more remote, so it doesn't really matter where you live.
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I chose three cities with the highest chance of getting equivalent wages 100k CAD to 100k USD, to get that 30% increase.
Yes, you can do remote; however, the US Internet infrastructure restricts a lot and you'd have to live in higher cost cities. You could also work remotely from Canada in those positions (unless they are for high security, dealing with their security - ie. utilities, in which point you'd have to be a US citizen and live in the US)
Yes there are a lot of deductions and most US citizens don't take advantage of them due to the overwhelming complexity of the tax system.
Btw, I have 23 years of combined IT/IS experience, there are opportunities in the states to make more, but it's not as easy as most make it out to be. Though I will say, some Companies in Calgary tech are having massive issues right now because they refuse to realize they are competing on an international level for wages and no longer local, losing their top end talent to remote work