What's your salary progression?

The Sandbox General
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amounts may vary by location

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Shut up and take my money.

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My dad happened to be born in Canada (although left shortly after) and I believe I could be a Canadian citizen, just needing to claim it and provide the necessary paperwork.

But 'murica.

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wonder if canada worries about too many US early retirees heading north for healthcare before medicare kicks in?

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how many Canadians would retire in America if the US has universal healthcare in the future?

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It’s hard to get permanent residency in Canada after a certain age.

It’s almost trivial for actuaries who are US citizens to get work permits in Canada, and US citizens who aren’t doing “Canadian work” can effectively live in Canda as long as they at least flagpole the border once every six months
although the latter group doesn’t get access to Canadian medicare (but private health insurance is cheap by US standards), and neither group can currently buy a house in Canada.

(I may have looked into this as well.)

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I have a spreadsheet with every raise and bonus I’ve had, in order. Even the little $1000 raise for VEEs.

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HCOL area here, and I am, uh, well below salary survey #s :frowning:

I should not have gone into pension consulting.

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Not job switching is the biggest mistake I’ve made, by far.

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My wife and I have spitballed opening up a KC BBQ joint in Scotland, but it’s not an actual aspiration, just a ‘wouldn’t it be neat if?’.

I am starting to plan around ‘retiring’ in my mid 40s. We’re likely to get some inheritance that will make that possible.

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I didn’t have spreadsheets for my first actuarial job

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I don’t doubt that, but Immigration Canada doesn’t talk about that in its online documentation (except, perhaps, what’s implied in the “start-up visa” process (“Immigrate by starting a business and creating jobs”)
or if having lots of money gets you a provincial nomination
especially if you speak French and the province in question is QuĂ©bec).

But if you try to get PR through the regular points system
if you’re over 40 (especially 45+) it was difficult to get enough points to qualify pre-pandemic. I don’t know whether the points threshold has dropped / will drop with recent proposals to increase immigration.

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My boss has several lotus files.

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To answer the OP, 2009 was first full full-time year. Going off of that, I’ve had geometric average increase of about 6.75% a year. 16%, 6%, 10%, 7%, 6%, -6% [bad review, no bonus], 16%, 15%, 11%, 0%, 3%, 0%, 7%. Bonus peaked in 2018.

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I started with Supercalc and Visicalc

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A huge number of Canadians already spend their winters in the southern USA but that is purely a weather thing. They buy “out of country” medical coverage for the period of time they stay in the South as there is no waiting period for that.

I don’t sense many Canadians want to live in the US year round for the same reasons Americans don’t want to leave their country: they believe they live in the best country in the world.

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And if that isn’t the reason
the tax implications of a Canadian being in the US for more than 182 days each year would also provide a disincentive.

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You could always just commit a crime that would be the death penalty so Canada can’t send you back to wherever you came from.

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I heard this guy makes bank

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I thought that was our thing!?