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Originally Posted by Chocolite
Most of the IT jobs that make up the numbers won't be top level scientific jobs, and nor does it matter. Those jobs are few and far between, and are mostly in Silicon Valley. The ones that matter are those engineering, IT support and software developer jobs. The Bay area might have added or retained a few hundred top level scientific jobs, but they lost 24,000 other good paying ones. IMO, you want your city to be gaining in the middle to upper middle jobs, which Toronto has done nicely.
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Originally Posted by niwell
To be fair, this is true for pretty much every tech market outside the US. Silicon Valley is an extreme outlier and now American tech outposts lesser ones as opposed to Toronto tech salaries being particularly low.
Weirdly enough all the people I know in tech (including my wife) are in Canadian based companies and make well over what reddit seems to think is the tech salary cap here.
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My thoughts exactly. As globalization has evolved, high tech or the highest part of tech is concentrated in very few areas, example Silicon Valley as you mentioned.
We could split the category into tech and high tech, with high tech being the research heavy, highly scientific portion, and we'd find there are many of those jobs outside of the Silicon Valley.
I look at regular tech jobs as very desirable. They're white collar jobs that pay well (averages for Canada are ~120K/yr) and all cities would love to have more of these types of jobs.
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