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Salaries are based on market rates not "cost of living". If you want your employer to pay a higher salary either move to another city where they would pay more

Salaries are based on market rates not "cost of living". If you want your employer to pay a higher salary either move to another city where they would pay more or find another company. There's not much else you can do that would convince your company otherwise.

9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
Why not just tell you live in another city?
- IshKebab 6y ago
  Because that's very dishonest and you'd probably be fired for it if they found out.
- OminousWeapons 6y ago
  I agree, this seems trivial to solve: get a UPS PMB in a high cost of living area and set up mail forwarding.
  - PenguinCoder 6y ago
    Yeah, until they geolocate the IP address you're using to connect to the company VPN. Oops.
    - bserge 6y ago
      "I'm using my own permanent VPN, sorry" :D
    - smabie 6y ago
      there are so many trivial solutions to that and you know it
  - Mountain_Skies 6y ago
    Those are called Commercial Mail Acceptance Facilities and there is a database of them available. DMVs use the database to catch people trying to use a rented mailbox as their home address. An employer can catch this if they want to. At my last employer I used a UPS Store address and HR never caught on but since it was in the same town I lived in, there were no tax issues. When I tried to open an HSA, my address was flagged because an HSA is considered a bank account and they must have a physical address for that. I opened an FSA instead, which didn't flag. So it really depends on how the company's HR department operates and as others have mentioned, if you're in a different tax area, there could be legal complications if you get caught.
  - ghaff 6y ago
    I suspect most of the people effectively going "just commit tax fraud" are mostly venting as opposed to saying something they'd seriously do. The fraud aside, I think it would be practically very hard to maintain the opsec needed to avoid clueing in your co-workers as to where you actually live--especially if it's in a different climate/time zone/etc.
- pavel_lishin 6y ago
  This could constitute tax fraud.
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9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago

Why not just tell you live in another city?

IshKebab 6y ago
Because that's very dishonest and you'd probably be fired for it if they found out.
OminousWeapons 6y ago
I agree, this seems trivial to solve: get a UPS PMB in a high cost of living area and set up mail forwarding.
- PenguinCoder 6y ago
  Yeah, until they geolocate the IP address you're using to connect to the company VPN. Oops.
  - bserge 6y ago
    "I'm using my own permanent VPN, sorry" :D
  - smabie 6y ago
    there are so many trivial solutions to that and you know it
- Mountain_Skies 6y ago
  Those are called Commercial Mail Acceptance Facilities and there is a database of them available. DMVs use the database to catch people trying to use a rented mailbox as their home address. An employer can catch this if they want to. At my last employer I used a UPS Store address and HR never caught on but since it was in the same town I lived in, there were no tax issues. When I tried to open an HSA, my address was flagged because an HSA is considered a bank account and they must have a physical address for that. I opened an FSA instead, which didn't flag. So it really depends on how the company's HR department operates and as others have mentioned, if you're in a different tax area, there could be legal complications if you get caught.
- ghaff 6y ago
  I suspect most of the people effectively going "just commit tax fraud" are mostly venting as opposed to saying something they'd seriously do. The fraud aside, I think it would be practically very hard to maintain the opsec needed to avoid clueing in your co-workers as to where you actually live--especially if it's in a different climate/time zone/etc.
pavel_lishin 6y ago
This could constitute tax fraud.

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