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Now make location pay discrimination a crime. Want to hire a dev in India? You must offer the same as if they lived in NY or San Francisco.

yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
Yay! Free money for everyone!
- voxl 5y ago
  Pay based on location is idiotic, if your pool is the entire world then your pay scale should reflect that market and average out. This means developers outside America get more purchasing power than San Fran devs, but that's the market you've entered. It is simply artificial price fixing to pay based off location.
  - yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
    Averaging out means that SV developers won't be accepting offers for those jobs because they will feel they are underpaid.
    - luckylion 5y ago
      Then they won't work. I hear SF has great social programs, so... yeah.
  - gowld 5y ago
    It's the opposite of artificial price fixing. It's natural markt forces of supply and demand.
  - robocat 5y ago
    Sometimes there are reasons why the world acts like it does. When you disagree with the world, sometimes it is because of your own naïveté: maybe open your mind a bit more? Your comment doesn’t reflect well upon you IMHO. This is commonly called Chesterton’s fence https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chesterton%27s+fence https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chesterton%27s+fence
umeshunni 5y ago
Or better, offer the person in San Francisco the same as if they lived in India. If it doesn't work for them, they can just move somewhere cheaper.
- subpixel 5y ago
  Not better, but more aligned with reality, where global organizations are learning that when we're all remote, the output of a $75k employee outside the US is 'good enough' compared to the output of a $140k employee in the US.
- draw_down 5y ago
  Right. Careful what you wish for.
whywhywhywhy 5y ago
I think it's very optimistic to assume this would result in the salaries all being pushed up to the upper limit and not the lower one.

yakshaving_jgt 5y ago

Yay! Free money for everyone!

voxl 5y ago
Pay based on location is idiotic, if your pool is the entire world then your pay scale should reflect that market and average out. This means developers outside America get more purchasing power than San Fran devs, but that's the market you've entered. It is simply artificial price fixing to pay based off location.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
  Averaging out means that SV developers won't be accepting offers for those jobs because they will feel they are underpaid.
  - luckylion 5y ago
    Then they won't work. I hear SF has great social programs, so... yeah.
- gowld 5y ago
  It's the opposite of artificial price fixing. It's natural markt forces of supply and demand.
- robocat 5y ago
  Sometimes there are reasons why the world acts like it does. When you disagree with the world, sometimes it is because of your own naïveté: maybe open your mind a bit more? Your comment doesn’t reflect well upon you IMHO. This is commonly called Chesterton’s fence https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chesterton%27s+fence https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chesterton%27s+fence

umeshunni 5y ago

Or better, offer the person in San Francisco the same as if they lived in India. If it doesn't work for them, they can just move somewhere cheaper.

subpixel 5y ago
Not better, but more aligned with reality, where global organizations are learning that when we're all remote, the output of a $75k employee outside the US is 'good enough' compared to the output of a $140k employee in the US.
draw_down 5y ago
Right. Careful what you wish for.

whywhywhywhy 5y ago

I think it's very optimistic to assume this would result in the salaries all being pushed up to the upper limit and not the lower one.