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>and reduces your competitiveness against other remote employers that don't try to squeeze 10-40% off employee salaries Well, duh. Google paying its engineers
by savanaly 8y ago
>and reduces your competitiveness against other remote employers that don't try to squeeze 10-40% off employee salaries
Well, duh. Google paying its engineers X instead of X + 100,000 reduces its competitiveness against other employers too. Doesn't mean they should raise salaries by 100k across the board though. Companies pay what they must to attract the workers they need, why would they pay more? They're in most cases not a charity being run for the benefit of the employees. And for remote work, being remote is usually a huge perk for the employee so naturally it comes with a shortfall in somewhere else, such as salary.
- imsofuture 8y agoSure I agree with your general point, but other remote companies WILL pay more. I've worked for 3 companies remotely over the past 6 years. Every single one of them, including being employee #8 or so at a seed-round startup paid more than the max Gitlab would pay me for a backend role. Like, in 2012, as employee #10 at a bootstrapped startup, I was paid more. Gitlab pays crazy under market, end of story.
- tracker1 8y agoGitLab's rate calculations are really off for a few markets... Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta come to mind there. Software Devs do var above the mean income in the area relatively speaking than in other cities.
- hedvig 8y ago> charity being run for the benefit of the employees. Whose benefit then?