cpdude,
The question is "What is the best aviation job in Canada?" Not "what job do you want to have?"
And I highly doubt your comparison with WJ.
WJ Salary
I guess I assumed you would be looking at this point in time and not considering a contract which hasn't been offered in over 15 years.
Here are the numbers for a new-hire post Jan 08 (C Scale) at CX VS a new-hire at WJ. I used only salary without share options or profit share and for CX used today's conversion rate into CDN dollars.
Year 1 CX - 49,632/yr, WJ - 40,000/yr,
Year 3 CX - 62,268/yr, WJ - 78,720/yr,
Year 5 CX - 85,272/yr, WJ - 126,720/yr,
Year 10 CX- 107,616/yr, WJ - 153,600/yr,
Year 15 CX- 151,632/yr, WJ - 153,600/yr
This is a realistic comparison with CX time to command being 13 years and WJ at 5 years.
Also, WJ has great tasting kool-aid where CX's is very sour!
Now, is that "heavy" iron really that important to you?