> Large COL adjustments make no sense to me. In the past I've been interviewed by several startups which when the point for salary negotiations came asked: "Wh

> Large COL adjustments make no sense to me. In the past I've been interviewed by several startups which when the point for salary negotiations came asked: "What do you _need_ to earn?". Somehow some companies (if not even most companies overall) seem to think that that's an acceptable line of thinking, and Buffer seems to be one of them. Their "dependent grant" seems to go into the same direction: "Oh you have a dependant? Then you naturally _need_ to earn more."