I'll soon be moving to Nova Scotia. I am 23 and a recent graduate in Communications & Broadcasting, obtaining 1st Class Honours. I've been running a marketing business for 2 years, so also have extensive experience in PR & Marketing.

What are acceptable salary ranges? I know that it's a bit like asking how long a piece of string is, but I'm just curious to get people's thoughts.

Our apartment is $1100 per month, although this is split between myself and my parter, paying half each. Only other outgoings are food, power, telecomms ($99 per month). No car as we will be in Halifax, and my parter has lived there for years without the need for a vehicle, although I'm sure we will get one at some point. Also there are no children yet.......yet!

Any information would be useful. Also, as a side note, I am applying for one position that pays $73,000 - is this good?

$73k in itself seems like a decent wage. I earn a bit less than that, have a wife and two kids, and my rent is $1600 p/month. I'm sure you'll do fine if you can get it....

If you can get it you will be doing very well thank you !

Back in '04, I went from UKP45k to $75k, which on paper was a huge cut with the exchange rate then of about $2.35 to the Pound. Even so, I was better off in Alberta than the UK (I paid rent of about $1,000 a month).

With no car and only half the rent, unless you eat out every night you should be absolutely fine. The only caution I would add is that if you're going from a long-distance relationship to living together, you can't guarantee it will last. Obviously I hope for your sake it does, but six months of co-habitation counts as a common law relationship so breaking up has the potential to cost the higher earner for years afterwards if a break-up happens.

$73k would be a good salary in NS. For a 23 yr old it would be an outstanding salary. Your peers, recently graduating from Canadian Universities would likely be earning less. So either you are exceedingly good, or your chances of getting that $73k job are lower than you think.

Two years, innit?

$73,000 sounds like a lot of money for Halifax. Good luck.

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Thanks for your information guys!

Luckily my partner and myself have lived together in the UK for the past 2 1/2 years, so we know everything works - apart from who does the laundry this week ?!

congratulations on your degree and let us know if you get the job!

My brother in law at 30 has a very good job at CBC in Toronto...he has worked there for the last 4 years and just hit $60k. At 23 getting a job at $73k seems pretty slim. Unless you know somewhere there already in which case you're quids in. I'd say whatever you can get by on is a reasonable wage. It's not like back home where you can apply based on your degree and the Uni you went to. Good luck! If you get it I'm going to consider moving to Halifax.

When I was 27 I had a job in Toronto that paid $84k, and that wasn't last year, or the year before... I think serious money can be found in Toronto but Halifax, I dunno, everyone in Halifax has youth and two degrees.

I think it depends on what trade you're in. I used my brother in law because he's in broadcasting too.

Oh good I might move there and stand out from the crowd a bit

Most young guys from NS come over to the tar sands to make their money.

Ah. Then relevantly, one of my daughters and has a degree in "Communications", which is something one gets for faffing around making films and stuff. When she was 23, if I have the year right, she made about $10,000 as a radio host, $3,000 for selling a radio documentary to the CBC and a share in a prize of a few hundred bucks for winning something at a short film festival. This seemed about the going rate for the qualification.

We have a friend who makes about $15,000 as a host but he has had to travel wherever the work is and he's about 27 I think. CBC is a great company to work for my I don't think they get up to the 70k mark until you get into more senior positions.