Don't forget that you don't get that sweet sweet free health care in the US... so, figure out how much health insurance is when shopping around for salaries.

ArchKid, keep in mind that Canadian dollars also have a different exchange rate value to that of U.S. Dollars and those shifts around. N.S. makes other good points like health care and all. In addition, different places have different cost of living (COL). The COL in New York City is pretty high and probably higher than in Los Angeles in most parts of the metropolitan area. Also, different firms have different packages and some have bonuses and other don't. Some just provides a Health Insurance package so your cost to the employers is usually going to be around 1.5x (well...... generally between 1.4 and 1.6x but sometimes higher)  your base salary. So you may get a $35K to $45K starting salary as an intern but you would likely cost the firm about $45K to $65K a year with the health insurance, social security and other indirect costs over the top of base salary. Your take home maybe a little less than your base salary so figure likely ~90% give or take. In Canada, you are under a different tax code system and health care in general is a given so your taxes will likely be a little more than in the U.S. but that may or may not be true considering Canada isn't policing the planet quite like the U.S. which a sizable chunk of our tax dollars in the U.S. goes into along with starting wars, destroying countries, and then fixing their countries up after we bomb them and often fixing them up better than they were before hand like we did in Japan..... but when fixing them up, I am talking about buildings and structures and infrastructure but not necessarily their culture and other issues that money can't fix.

you should be in 75-80k range