大你几岁, First of all I 'm not interested to comparing the income against anyone. Only thing I cared about is not to mislead the people who haven't worked here yet. I knew some people really believed how high they could get here and then they asked very high offer. The result were they even lost the first chance getting involved into the industry.
I also wonder why you just bought a house worthing 150,000 if your pay cheque is much higher than an experienced welder. As I know the average price of single house is 300,000 in Calgary.
Time to sleep.