>>Is that $21-$26 Canadian? Jeez, what is that, about $15 to $20 USD? Who could afford to work at that??

>All the salary surveys I've seen show that our Canadian friends are severely underpaid as compared to what US programmers make.

It wasn't so bad when the dollars were equal. A KPMG survey from 2 years ago shows that this ($50,000) is bang on for a level 2 systems analyst/programmer. Quote from the evening news last night "Canada is a great place to live if you are sick or poor".