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Cohiba
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: Top B.C. nurses to earn up to $90,000 |
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Wow. I should have been a nurse. I look pretty good in a skirt, except
for me hairy arse and legs.
Top B.C. nurses to earn up to $90,000
Union says its new four-year contract now the richest in Canada
Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun
Published: Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Salaries for the highest-paid nurses in B.C. will rise to nearly $90,000 a year by the end of a new four-year contract between nurses and the government. The lowest paid, most inexperienced nurses will make $54,552, according to wage rates compiled Monday by the B.C. Nurses Union.
Major contract gains worth another 17 per cent -- for a total cost of about $1.76 billion this year and more in each subsequent year -- are being celebrated as the BCNU marks National Nursing Week with a public relations campaign in radio and television ads. The province's 29,000 unionized registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses have now vaulted over colleagues in all other provinces when it comes to compensation and benefits, according to the B.C. Nurses Union.
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=9fb5731a-b979-4e30-a8d8-4e3f85974d61&k=99154 |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| Good for them.. it's not exactly a pleasant job. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| SarcasmKills wrote: |
| Good for them.. it's not exactly a pleasant job. |
Not easy either. And it takes more than 'looking pretty good in a skirt', Cohiba. |
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Green Tea
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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$90,000 as a nurse in Vancouver?
No thanks, a 2 bedroom house cost about $75 million these days doesn't it?
Immigration from China is such a ****** for Canadians.... Nothing is affordable in our big cities anymore.
Mod Edit:Edited for language. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Green Tea wrote: |
$90,000 as a nurse in Vancouver?
No thanks, a 2 bedroom house cost about $75 million these days doesn't it?
[b]Immigration from China is such a ***** for Canadians.... Nothing is affordable in our big cities anymore.
Mod Edit: Edited for language. |
Yeah, you gotta hate these no good immigrants coming over with their money, education and work ethics.  |
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huck
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Right...but $90,000 Canadian dollars is...what? $1200 U.S. dollars?
justkidding. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Green Tea wrote: |
$90,000 as a nurse in Vancouver?
No thanks, a 2 bedroom house cost about $75 million these days doesn't it?
Immigration from China is such a ***** for Canadians.... Nothing is affordable in our big cities anymore.
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"Our" big cities? You sound like an editorial from the Toronto Star.
Besides, property prices are influenced by quite a bit more than Chinese people moving to Van. Think about it. We have ample land that can be built up, the resources to do it, the willing and able market that can afford new apt/condos and yet there is still a housing shortage in Vancouver, and has been for years and years. Prices keep going up and supply doesn't seem to be meeting demand.
Why could this be? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
| Green Tea wrote: |
$90,000 as a nurse in Vancouver?
No thanks, a 2 bedroom house cost about $75 million these days doesn't it?
Immigration from China is such a ***** for Canadians.... Nothing is affordable in our big cities anymore.
Mod Edit: Edited for language. |
"Our" big cities? You sound like an editorial from the Toronto Star.
Besides, property prices are influenced by quite a bit more than Chinese people moving to Van. Think about it. We have ample land that can be built up, the resources to do it, the willing and able market that can afford new apt/condos and yet there is still a housing shortage in Vancouver, and has been for years and years. Prices keep going up and supply doesn't seem to be meeting demand.
Why could this be? |
It's a conspiracy aimed at encouraging Chinese immigrants to move to Halifax or St John's? |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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And other provinces will follow, because of the growing demand for nurses in the US. One of my friends graduated from nursing in a respiratory program, and an American hospital group offered to hire the entire grad class.
I'll say it again: I'm doing the wrong thing for a living.
Ken:> |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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My sister's a top BC nurse - experienced OR assistant - so this doesn't come as any surprise to me. I took some students back to Canada with me last summer and we stayed at her brand new house. My students would have found it much easier to believe that she was a doctor. She just got married to a teacher who gets paid well but doesn't make nearly what she does.
Bear in mind, however, that the amount my sister will pay in provincial, federal, and municiple taxes with this raise adds up to a number that starts with a 4. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
And other provinces will follow, because of the growing demand for nurses in the US. One of my friends graduated from nursing in a respiratory program, and an American hospital group offered to hire the entire grad class.
I'll say it again: I'm doing the wrong thing for a living.
Ken:> |
My brother went back to school...nursing. He's got it all planed out. He'll get a job at a hospital, save up all his cash, get married to one of the doctors, and retire at 40.  |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My sister's a top BC nurse - experienced OR assistant - so this doesn't come as any surprise to me. I took some students back to Canada with me last summer and we stayed at her brand new house. My students would have found it much easier to believe that she was a doctor. She just got married to a teacher who gets paid well but doesn't make nearly what she does.
Bear in mind, however, that the amount my sister will pay in provincial, federal, and municiple taxes with this raise adds up to a number that starts with a 4. |
Yeah, brings to mind memories of my dad being upset about his latest raise because it had bumped him up a tax bracket, which meant his net income had taken a 4% blow. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My sister's a top BC nurse - experienced OR assistant - so this doesn't come as any surprise to me. I took some students back to Canada with me last summer and we stayed at her brand new house. My students would have found it much easier to believe that she was a doctor. She just got married to a teacher who gets paid well but doesn't make nearly what she does.
Bear in mind, however, that the amount my sister will pay in provincial, federal, and municiple taxes with this raise adds up to a number that starts with a 4. |
Yeah, brings to mind memories of my dad being upset about his latest raise because it had bumped him up a tax bracket, which meant his net income had taken a 4% blow. |
I don't understand how this is possible.
Tax brackets usually mean that you only pay the higher % on what you earn over that amount - everything underneath you pay the same % as before.
Thus if tax brackets are:
10% on $20,000 - $50,000
25% on $50,000 - $70,000
and your income is $60,000, you'll pay 10% on $50,000 of that and 25% on the $10,000.
This is how it should be. Please explain how it was possible for your dad to wind up with an overall 4% net loss. I'm not being an arse - I'm genuinely interested. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My sister's a top BC nurse - experienced OR assistant - so this doesn't come as any surprise to me. I took some students back to Canada with me last summer and we stayed at her brand new house. My students would have found it much easier to believe that she was a doctor. She just got married to a teacher who gets paid well but doesn't make nearly what she does.
Bear in mind, however, that the amount my sister will pay in provincial, federal, and municiple taxes with this raise adds up to a number that starts with a 4. |
Yeah, brings to mind memories of my dad being upset about his latest raise because it had bumped him up a tax bracket, which meant his net income had taken a 4% blow. |
I don't understand how this is possible.
Tax brackets usually mean that you only pay the higher % on what you earn over that amount - everything underneath you pay the same % as before.
Thus if tax brackets are:
10% on $20,000 - $50,000
25% on $50,000 - $70,000
and your income is $60,000, you'll pay 10% on $50,000 of that and 25% on the $10,000.
This is how it should be. Please explain how it was possible for your dad to wind up with an overall 4% net loss. I'm not being an arse - I'm genuinely interested. |
I don't know how it works either. The only times I've paid taxes in Canada I was living below the poverty line and in the lowest tax bracket. But I've heard many stories of this happening.
BTW, your examples of 10% and 25% are comical. Maybe their plausible for the provincial portion of tax deductions in some provinces. Overall try a number that starts with a 5 for the very rich when you add up everything. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Thus if tax brackets are:
10% on $20,000 - $50,000
25% on $50,000 - $70,000
and your income is $60,000, you'll pay 10% on $50,000 of that and 25% on the $10,000. |
I do not know if that would be the case. Wouldn't you pay 10% on making 50,000 (5,000) and 25% on making, say, 60,000, which would be 15,000? That's not a realistic scenario, but I would think the tax applies to the income as a whole and not only that part above the bracket.
I have older friends in Canada who refuse overtime on Saturday for the same reasons.
It is true that the cost of living in Vancouver is very high. 90,000 in Canadian dollars would be nice but would not make you rich.
Ken:> |
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