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Are cost of living adjustments made to the compensation packages for remote workers, or does a developer in rural Iowa get the same six figure salary that seems
by nilkn 14y ago
Are cost of living adjustments made to the compensation packages for remote workers, or does a developer in rural Iowa get the same six figure salary that seems like nothing in Silicon Valley?
- eriksank 14y agoRemote workers tend to be freelancers/self-employed. There may be no compensation package at all ;-)
- nilkn 14y agoWell, I was specifically referring to the situation in the link, where StackExchange hires remote workers to be full-time developers. Unless I've somehow misunderstood and those appointments are not full-time but rather contract-based. I understand that if you're freelancing things are very different.
- aalear 14y agoJoel blogged about how compensation works at Stack Exchange and the write-up touches on that: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-developers/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pa....