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The signed contract and the employer's support letter state different figures because one of them was converted into U.S. dollars. Before asking anyone to reissue a document, establish what the compensation actually is: the currency of the contract, the pay period, the hours it assumes, and which items were folded into the converted number. The goal is one accurate account of the arrangement, not the most attractive figure.
Fix the currency, the period and the hours
Write down the figure exactly as each document states it, with its currency, its pay period and the hours it assumes — annual, weekly or hourly. An annual amount divided by a different assumed workweek produces a different rate without anyone having changed the offer. Note the conversion rate used, the date it was taken from, and who chose it. Ask whether allowances, bonuses, overtime or reimbursed expenses were included in one figure and not the other. Many discrepancies of this kind are arithmetic and definition, and they resolve once those inputs are visible on paper.
Ask what the compensation is being used to establish
The TN provisions concern Canadian or Mexican citizenship, a profession on the list, the credentials that profession requires, prearranged professional employment and a genuinely temporary entry. Do not assume a converted salary has to reach some particular level; ask the person reviewing the file how, if at all, the compensation figures bear on those questions in your circumstances. Where the arrangement is unusual — part-time hours, a commission component, payment by a related company — describe it plainly rather than smoothing it into a single annual number that hides the structure.
Have the author of the document correct it
Hypothetical example: an applicant in Pointe-Claire notices that the letter states an annual U.S.-dollar figure while the signed contract is expressed in Canadian dollars per hour, and the two do not meet. The reconciliation belongs to the employer, which wrote both documents; choosing whichever figure reads better creates a record nobody can explain later. Ask for a corrected letter that carries the contractual figure and, if a converted amount is still useful, presents it as a conversion with its rate and date. If the contract is in French and will be submitted to USCIS, its instructions require a full English translation with the translator's certification as to accuracy, completeness and competence; confirm what the procedure you are using requires.
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