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Many Companies Want Remote Workers – Except from Colorado
- throwawaysea 5y ago> Many companies now do include pay information specific to Colorado on remote job postings. A listing for a software development engineer on a “work-from-anywhere” team at Amazon.com Inc., for instance, notes that the range for the position in Colorado is $116,400 to $160,000 a year, but overall compensation could vary. Amazon’s listing cites Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act as its reason for including the compensation information. Stating just the base salary range but not the total compensation seems like an underhanded way to "comply" with the law.
- ShepherdKing 5y agoOne might view it as a way of discouraging remote work in Colorado for various reasons. I suspect that Colorado cannot collect much income tax on remote workers given their low flat income tax, so if the tax collected in the remote employers state is higher than that of Colorado, then Colorado gets nothing.
- mikhailfranco 5y agoSo they should either: 1. Abolish income tax and increase consumption taxes; or 2. Encourage employers to locate in Colorado and encourage them to hire remote workers in other states. Adding costs or regulations does not encourage (2).