The location-based pay point is valid. I’ve worked a number of jobs for international companies, earning a salary literally 4x less than my international collea

The location-based pay point is valid. I’ve worked a number of jobs for international companies, earning a salary literally 4x less than my international colleagues in the same or lower roles. I do understand that some companies do this on purpose because some countries are “cheaper” to hire from than others, though a company making this choice deliberately is exploitative. Just because someone lives somewhere else doesn’t make them worth less as an employee. After a few jobs I noticed this trend and started rejecting the ones that were obviously just after cheaper workers, and negotiated harder where I was interested. The result is a closer-to-reality salary. I found this most common among software consultancies or companies based in the US with the bulk of their developers outside the US. They also loved pretending that they were an American company with American values, meanwhile they were a small management group in America with literally everyone else paid less in other countries. It’s pretty demotivating knowing that you’re earning multiple times less than others in the same roles due to this. One company did layoffs when they and their clients were US-based and developer salaries paid in non-USD, paying them probably 4x less than they would have been paid if living where the company is based. If you’re laying people off when you’re charging customers US-salary based labor prices for workers you’re paying literally 4x less (at least), its exploitation and there is something _seriously_ wrong.