True, the numbers you cut and pasted were correct, but you can't compare a Canadian income with a US income unless you convert them to a like currency!! No need to spoon feed, just use a little common sense when you put statistics up there next time.
How do you not understand it? C$73,200 is about US$55,000, which is much less than the average US salary of US$67,000.
It doesn't matter. The salary was in Canadian dollars, therefore to compare salaries in Canada to salaries in the US you have to convert each salary to the same currency, whether it is Mexican pesos, Japanese yen, Canadian dollars, or US dollars.
Common sense. It makes no sense to convert it to US$ if you are comparing 2 Canadians' salaries, but when making the comparison between the US and Canada, you have to convert them. You tried to mislead people by saying that the average Canadian income is $73,200 and that the US income is $67,000. However, you can't compare them like that. In US$, the average Canadian income is $55,000 and the average US income is $67,000. You want to compare them in Canadian dollars, ok. The average Canadian income is C$73,200, and the average US income is about C$85,000. Go to
www.worldbank.org, and here's what you will find...
PPP GNI is the Gross National Income converted to international dollars using the purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GNI as a US dollar has in the US. Now if you look at Canada's PPI GNI, it is $28,000. Look at the US', and it is $36,100. This is in international dollars, meaning each US citizen has about 25% more income.
Oh, so now instead of accepting people's evidence, we say the way it was calculated was bogus. Well it works both ways; if the US GDP is bogus, then so is Canada's, so we're both even.