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>Software engineerings in Calgary are lucky to make 70k canadian

I have to disagree with that statement. As an example, here is a system admin job posting by City of Calgary. The pay range is $77,891 - 117,609 per annum

https://recruiting.calgary.ca/psc/pdhr/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_H...

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Those city and CBE jobs are few and far between and usually pay much higher than private jobs. The 77k is starting wage more or less no matter what seniority and rises with yrs of service in the union.

I think most intermediate / senior engineers can make 75k a year, but starting is very low, like 50k.

That seems really wrong to me. I work for TELUS and starting wages for entry level programming positions is around the 55k-70k, and then for more intermediate positions (something like 5 years experience) you are looking at 70-100K

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