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Paying salaries based on location is purely based on offer//demand. When you are a full remote worker, the offer and demand for your market is based on the gl
by ironjunkie 8y ago
Paying salaries based on location is purely based on offer//demand.
When you are a full remote worker, the offer and demand for your market is based on the global availability of remote workers. Which means that you are competing with that Ukrainian developer ready to work for 20k$/year.
The best way to hack this situation of course is to live cheaply in a high-wage city.
Some of my friends managed to find a flatshare for less than 1k$/month in the bay area and are literally saving close to 8k$/month.
- scaryclam 8y agoI don't mind paying remote workers based on their localised market rate. I have a problem with workers being rated based on their postcode (zipcode) though. I work in London. I commute in. Many of these pay calculators underestimate my wage potential by a large percent. That's BS and just attempting to get cheap developers for low pay.
- ironjunkie 8y agothen the offer//demand theory dictates that you should find another employer that will not differentiate based on the zipcode. The differentiating employer will lose you, and hence maybe reconsider his policy if no workers can be found with the current policy.