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I am not assuming pay has anything to do with value. The employee is already remote in the high COL area in this case. Why is it easier to replace you with a c
by ubercow13 6y ago
I am not assuming pay has anything to do with value.
The employee is already remote in the high COL area in this case. Why is it easier to replace you with a cheap low COL area employee once you've moved to a low COL area yourself? They could have just replaced you with a low COL employee before you moved.
I think the other comment in this thread about rate limiting this change touches on the real reason.
- tdeck 6y agoThere are costs to replacing and ramping up an employee. The company reduces pay for those who move because it assumes they'll accept that reduction based on the difficulty of finding a better paying job while working out of that new location. It wouldn't even surprise me if the big tech companies actually colluded on these market discounts to keep wages low, given the wage fixing lawsuit a few years ago. If Google, and FB both cut your pay 30% for moving to Tulsa then employers can keep a lot more of their money and their people.