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Originally Posted by MegaErtz
Yes, the wage gap is a huge problem for retaining highly skilled or highly educated Canadians who can make substantially more in the US for the same job. For some reasons Canadians seem to be very thin skinned about the subject and love to deny reality.
Even basic jobs like working at McDonald's and picking up garbage pay way, way more down there. Canadians love to point at places near the Mississippi Delta that have been economically underdeveloped for centuries, but compare wages in Calgary to wages in major cities in most of the USA and there is a huge wage gap..
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Highly skilled workers sure. Low-skilled? Absolutely not.
Are there parts of America that pay higher, yes. But to say that it's way way more is just not true.
I work in HR for an American company that hires a significant number of low-skilled workers. I see what we hire at and what compensation data says for other retailers so I'd say I'm pretty qualified to say pay is not significantly higher for low-skill workers in the US compared to Canada. Plus low skilled workers have very little job protections compared to Canadians and have to pay significantly more for benefits.