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Why Gitlab pays local rates (2019)
- tzs 3y agoHow local? Say you have three remote workers with similar skills and experience who are doing similar jobs, and they all live in the greater Los Angeles area. One lives in Hollywood, one lives in Pasadena, and one lives in Compton. Do they all get paid about the same, or does the Hollywood person get more or the Compton person get less than the Pasadena person? When you are hiring for a position that requires that the person work in a particular location than you have to take into account cost of living at that location. But for fully remote workers where the company imposes no constraints on where they live it doesn't really make sense to have pay depend on location. Pay enough that you don't have trouble filling open positions. If that results in a pay level such that you don't have any workers in say NYC because people there can't get by on what you offer why would that be a problem, as long as there are enough qualified workers from less expensive cities to fill your openings?