Reality Cheque: How a Master's Degree Could Be Your Ticket to Vancouver's Middle-Class
B.C. residents on average have the second-highest increase in salary, for those who upgrade from a Bachelor's to a Master's degree. That's the good news. The bad news is - at just $49,000 a year - our province has the lowest average salary for recent Bachelor degree graduates. But don't panic, we're still within $4,000 of the Canadian average, along with six other provinces. What this type of salary could afford you in Metro Vancouver is a different story, which we'll look into shortly. But I'll begin by focusing my dataset, using the chart below. My Dataset: The Breakdown The first aspect to note about these figures is while B.C. has the second-highest salary increase after completing a Master's degree (to $73,000 a year), Alberta and Saskatchewan are actually the top overall earners. Three years after completing a graduate degree, our two neighbouring provinces boast average earnings of $85,000 and $83,500 a year. While their...