Originally Posted by
jloome
75K is not a bad salary, it’s almost the entire household income in Canada with an assumption of two working adults. YOu’re doing well dude; most people don’t make 75K a year; the average is skewed up by the top 3-4% making above average incomes.
They’re advertising a job for the official correspondence writer and editor for the Premier of Alberta right now. It starts at 72K. That’s a job with potential historic ramifications to it, with massive responsibility. The TOP END for that job is 90K, Alberta is (by far) the best paying jurisdiction in the country on average and yet 92% of surveyed staff online think government wages here are fair.
The very notion that people usually make more than 75K out of college is part of the grotesque social inflation that is going on right now, which isn’t bringing up people at the bottom; it’s just creating a massive disparity between rich and poor that is utterly unaffordable for the latter.
End social rant.
Now, having said all that… this is supposed to be the pinnacle of a trade, the top league in the U.S. and Canada. Refs should be making a decent wage for a top-tier tradesman who has to travel constantly, which to me is in 75k to 140K a year range.