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> Can you give me one valid reason why the developer in India should get a penny less than the developer in the Bay area? You can reverse that question to help

> Can you give me one valid reason why the developer in India should get a penny less than the developer in the Bay area? You can reverse that question to help answer it. Can you give me one valid reason why the developer in the Bay area should get a penny more than the developer in India? One of the reasons the Bay area developer is paid more is because it costs so much to live there that they need to make more to pay their bills. If they won't work for less because of the cost of living, then it's a factor in how much they get paid. As such, it's not just the employer that's factoring employee location into the amount they get paid.

wolco 9y ago
One reason would be similiar timezone. Without knowing the candidate details language, experience and knowledge might be better on the indian side but if the hq is based in sf than the native employee will have more value. Salary levels aside I have been part of a company based in sf that had money issues so the indian side took over with local financing and closed all worldwide offices and moved r&d to india. Which made sense because the future customer base was in india. Location and connection to customer base matter. I guess less so for developers compared to the product manager.