Well this is embarrassing. Apparently a big part of the city's bid to woo Amazon HQ2 was "we underpay our tech workers"!
After the failed bid proposal was posted online, observers questioned why the city would highlight that its tech workers have the 'lowest wages of all North American tech hubs'
Vancouver officials are defending their decision to tout the bottom-barrel pay of the city’s tech workers in their bid to get online retailer Amazon to build a second headquarters on the West Coast, saying it was one of their “strongest economic arguments.”...
http://theprovince.com/news/canada/c...6-64077c28b744