4 ms·
How is cost of living the employer's business? Have you presented your developers the opportunity to move to higher cost of living area for in increased salary
by a_imho 8y ago
How is cost of living the employer's business?
Have you presented your developers the opportunity to move to higher cost of living area for in increased salary (or vice versa, supposing you pay some developers much higher wages and you deem this a good deal)? Just because discriminating on geographical location is widely accept practice we should not pretend it is OK or worse, feel good about it.
https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-wage-gap-look-like/ https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
- jjeaff 8y agoI don't have to know the cost of living. But I can make a salary offer, and if they accept it, I can assume it's good for them. At the same time, I am always aware of the cost of living in an area, because I want to make sure my employees are comfortable and not encumbered by worrying about where their next meal is coming from. It isn't good for productivity. In other words, salaries are set by supply and demand in that market, not by the arbitrary value that one might assign to a specific job. So I should feel bad for paying employees above market rate in their area and giving them a better life than they could ever get by getting a local job? Sorry, not going to happen (me feeling bad about it, that is). Do you think everyone should pay San Francisco salaries to developers no matter where in the world they live? Seems absurd.
- a_imho 8y agoWhat is so absurd about getting the same payment for the same job? In fact, there are plenty of legislation that underpins this very concept for various groups of people, overseas workers not being one of them, so? I don't really buy the rational market argument, surely that would mean no fungible roles for SV developers. How one should feel about discriminating people slightly less than socially accepted is indeed complex and somewhat up to taste, I can give you that.
- Legogris 8y agoYou could use the same argument to say that SV engineer salaries should be way less in order to align with the global markets.
- a_imho 8y agoIndeed, but I'm less interested in finding what should be the right salary for a particular role at a particular company than actually addressing the disparities.