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> It should be about the value I bring to the company, not where I live. What, no! It should be about what offers you can get from other places. If your offer
by yxhuvud 4y ago
> It should be about the value I bring to the company, not where I live.
What, no! It should be about what offers you can get from other places. If your offer is close to your local salaries, then that mean the company thinks you would have a hard time getting a better offer from somewhere else.
- regularfry 4y agoThat depends entirely on how unique my value proposition is to the company making the offer. If I'm a commodity, yes, salary offers will trend to cost of living.
- eru 4y agoIt's a bit more complicated. For example, I can get x$ from Google, but that doesn't mean SAP or ASML should also pay me x$: I don't know anything about their respective ecosystems, so I wouldn't be able to contribute much of value.