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Good point, but it's how the market goes: I have different demands in terms of salary, and I pursue them differently than yours. On the other side, if you have
by ohduran 7y ago
Good point, but it's how the market goes: I have different demands in terms of salary, and I pursue them differently than yours. On the other side, if you have some sort of differentiating power (you're one of those 10x developers, for instance), then you can negotiate your salary the way you want, even if you could live comfortably with half the salary.
- ghaff 7y agoYeah, there's no grand theory to location-based pay much as some would like to make it a fundamental issue of fairness. There are some reasons to want the ability to hire anywhere regardless of salary cost. But, if you are going to pay everyone competitive Bay Area salaries anyway even if they work from a beach in Southeast Asia, there's going to at least be a bias towards hiring for nearby timezones, language fluency, the ability to get together physically on a regular basis, etc. You're essentially paying for it after all. (And if you conversely pay a salary that's decent for a typical midsize city in the South or Midwest, you're probably going to have a lot of trouble attracting talent that can get jobs and wants to live in or near major US coastal cities.) As others have said, GitLab is transparent about it which most companies are not. It does let you see that the best "deal" is to live somewhere that the salary multiplier is determined by a high CoL urban area--but then live in a low cost area of the same state.