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Ask YC: Salary comparison for WFH vs office-based?
Hi there,
Does anybody have any experience with how salaries for jobs where you work from home compare to equivalent office-based jobs? Would you expect to be paid more because you have to pay for your own electricity, etc., or does it not really make a difference?
- ScottWhigham 18y agoWould you expect to be paid more because you have to pay for your own electricity As someone who is in the process of hiring people, if you brought that up to me during the interview/hiring phase, it would be a black mark. Why? I'm offering you a great deal - WFH - yet here you are being greedy and wanting more. Depending on the needs, I might feel comfortable paying for internet but that's the only thing. Right or wrong, that's my first thoughts.
- arockwell 18y agoWhere I work, people who telecommute or frequently need to do work from home after hours have their internet access paid for. Asking for your employer to pay for electricity seems silly.
- andygeers 18y agoFor the record, I wasn't suggesting that I would say in my interview "please pay me extra for my electricity", I was aiming more for the general feel of "how do salaries for WFH jobs typically compare with office-based jobs", and suggesting things like electricity costs as potential factors as to why I thought there might be a difference in the first place