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Yes. Cost of living should have nothing to do with it. Do we pay people with kids more because their CoL is higher? Payment should be based 100% on work.

• brianwawok 5y ago
  Okay. Where do you live, and why do you deserve 10x more than someone who lives in India or eastern Europe?
  • cguess 5y ago
    In this case the people in India and Eastern Europe deserve to be paid more, not the other way around.
  • spaetzleesser 5y ago
    From my experience just being in the same time zone delivers a lot of value. For certain tasks it’s fine to have people in a time zone 10-12 hours off but in many other cases it causes a lot of communication delay and overhead.
  • Apocryphon 5y ago
    If they live in the continental U.S., one can argue that higher wage is at least based on not having to deal with annoyingly scheduled meetings because of disparate time zones.
  • strikelaserclaw 5y ago
    No one deserves anything, they deserve it if they can convince an employer to pay them that much. Theres no rule stopping SF employers from paying 50k for software engineering positions in the area.
• sokoloff 5y ago
  The market, as experienced by an employer, is “who are the people who are capable of doing this work, how much do they require to work for me, and if I pay them that amount, do I create value on net?” If someone else appears equally capable and willing to work for half or a quarter of what you are, it doesn’t matter much what the work is worth, they’re going to get the job much more often than you will. Employees want to get the most attractive compensation they can from an employer. Employers are not that different in this regard, in the other direction.
• spaetzleesser 5y ago
  “Do we pay people with kids more because their CoL is higher? “ In a sense we do because they (sometimes but increasingly) get paid leave and also drive up health insurance costs. As far as health insurance goes it never seemed fair to me that spouses and children get their health care subsidized by the employer.
• skeeter2020 5y ago
  One example: everybody pays taxes that fund schools, which only families with kids use, so in an indidrect way we do.