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So? This is good salary locally I believe.
by karmasimida 4y ago
So? This is good salary locally I believe.
- AlexandrB 4y agoExtend this logic to remote work and your salary should scale strictly with where you're living. Living in Ohio but working for a bay area startup? Expect to get paid a "good salary locally". Why not, right?
- sidlls 4y agoThat is the case in the vast majority of tech companies, though. They (almost) all have something like a "regional adjustment", "location based" or other classification for salaries in different areas. Some are more extreme than others. The company I work for (it's a relatively well-known tech company) certainly has it, and I know Google and other FAANGs do, too.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoThat's how it works. An engineer in the Bay Area can easily get 10 interviews next week and has to be paid more to stay.
- dekhn 4y agoyes, that makes sense. there should be regional cost of living adjustments.
- JumpinJack_Cash 4y agoPoint is that when you interview in SF and then leverage remote work to go wherever you want they cannot police where you are and determine the appropriate salary. OpenAI went shopping for Kenyan labor and those who did the job were not American and never interviewed in SF
- joshlemer 4y agoThis is more or less how it works, yes.
- aetch 4y agoYes, that’s how it works in most industries…
- karmasimida 4y agoThat is exactly how things are/should be working. Salary is a result of market.
- jmoak3 4y agoI live in Kentucky, work for a FANG and my total comp is scaled to ~75% of what I made in the bay. It's worth it because my options here are limited. A bay area worker may view this as exploitation, while I say "please god may this never end"
- umeshunni 4y agoIronically, the bay area worker is probably the one who's exploited by high taxation and greedy landlords.