Ask HN: Why won't US Companies hire remote Canadians?
For the 10 years I&#x27;ve been on hacker news and this is the first time I felt compelled to ask a question.<p>I see tons of remote full-time jobs especially on StackOverflow in the US for 100-120K USD which to a remoting Canadian is an insantity and never once will I get a reply. If its a contract job then yes I&#x27;ll get a response, or if its Canadian company I always get a response but a US startup wants US only employees. The Canadian salary wage for programmers is paltry especially for remoting. It sits between 55K-70K CAD. I regret not moving to San Francisco years ago and the only way to get a fair wage was to go self-employeed and load up on 4-5 contracts a time and now you&#x27;re running a business. Its not even hard to hire a Canadian since you can just contract them out.<p>How can you get US companies to consider hiring a remote Canadian? There must be a way to hack this.