Aha! I came across some odd Whiteclaw (alcohol) product placement on Unsplash, and I was wondering if “influencers” were trying to make a go of it on the platform, but that didn’t seem likely — now it all makes sense.
I don't think you can compare full-time employment with an hourly contract directly.
The rule of thumb I've heard a few people use to convert from employment to contract is to multiply your hourly employment earnings by 2.5 to arrive at your contract rate. By that math, you're still under-earning outside of the downtown core.
Mind you, I'm not sure that conversion has ever fully rung true to me, but the general point of not being able to directly compare still stands.
I fail to see how "per capita per square mile" is a useful measure.
_Anything_ measured in that way would show densely populated area vastly outnumbering rural areas, perhaps with the exclusion of things that essentially don't exist in cites, such as "number of farms per capita per square mile".
The measure appears to be concocted specifically for Lying With Statistics™.
I would further argue that tech jobs in Hamilton/Mississauga (or other satellite/burbs) don't compete with Toronto-proper in terms of compensation. Which leaves you with 1-2 hour commute each way just to try to save a bit on housing, and still not getting the benefit of properly compensated tech work.
This article seems to implicitly characterize it as a positive, but the lower cost of business in the Toronto tech scene is subsidized by low wages for tech workers.
As the article states, the talent and diversity of education is top-notch, but the compensation is yet to match—Toronto tech workers need to demand higher wages.
An important additional component of the GDPR is that an individual can revoke their consent, and require all previously collected personal information be deleted.
E.g. https://unsplash.com/photos/GMLfxktwWcM or https://unsplash.com/photos/RtdjA55Su2k