I’m curious whether anyone has ever had an Amazon recruiter or hiring manager specifically point out the absence of an income tax when making an offer to you for a role in Seattle. Washington State doesn’t have an income tax, so a compensation package for a role at Amazon in their Seattle, Bellevue, or other nearby offices might appear to be lower than an offer for a similar role in Silicon Valley until cost of living has been factored in. In addition to housing, income taxes are a significant difference between the 2 regions. I believe SF and NYC are the 2 offices where Amazon has a cost of living adjustment adjustment for compensation. Both are places with income taxes (there’s both a state AND a city income tax in NYC!). Recently, when Sound Transit - the Seattle region transit authority - did a nationwide search for a new CEO, they explicitly mentioned “no income tax” in their job posting. I’m particularly curious whether anyone who has worked as an Amazon recruiter has used this point when pitching an offer to a candidate from another state or who was considering an offer in California or New York. #tax #incometax #amazon #recruiter #seattle
What a weird post. Why do you care enough about this to post on Sunday night It’s a valid point to raise during negotiation. I would expect most employees to know this already.
OP should instead post this after a day of work during the week or instead of working? How would posting it some other time demonstrate it's of lesser importance?
Rabbit hole of weird flexes for a company. what other tax laws should we mention? property tax rates? housing median price? air quality?
That would be hilarious!😂
Most of the counties have about 10% sales tax and some counties have excise tax in addition
They also don’t mention no 🐊
Meanwhile I work remote from a very very lcol area... My mortgage on a 6/3 3k sqft house is 1/2 the rent on a studio in Seattle... (True I have to drive or fly 1-2 hours to catch a major play/NFL game/ concert but meh I'll take the trade-off for being able to live off 1/10th of my tc (1/5th when counting daycare etc) and tbh that's not that much worse than a decent city commute) only downside is I'm always 20 steps from my office, for a workaholic, that's like living next to a brewery But all things considered, Remote is still better for me at least imo.
Meta is oof for workaholics. Stay for the 630 dinner with your food in a meeting room for late night meetings. Grab snacks from microkitchen and munch while you follow up on post meeting asks. Enjoy the peace and quiet of not getting distracted by mid-day workchat messages. End up not leaving the office till like 9pm.
Any company with satellite sites adjusts their compensation offer based off working location. Hence states with no state income tax (e.g. Seattle, Austin) would all be lower salaries while higher cost of living places (e.g. Bay Area, NYC) would provide higher salary for the same job. The example you provided that highlights that fact is based only in Washington, hence they highlight it as a “perk”
And/or for the target person for this role, who may be looking at similar other roles in other cities/states that have a different base pay, this serves as a reminder that even though the salary is lower, it's an equivalent offer (or a better offer if the salary elsehwere is the same) so they rank this accordingly and can be more apples to apples when choosing where to focus attention. I've found the biggest challenge when hiring is creating a job listing and posting it such that I'm confident the people whom I'd like to attract are seeing it and giving it equal consideration to other opportunities that strongly attract them. If that hurdle is cleared, then you don't worry as much that your particular interview strategy may unwittingly weed out a great candidate because you have confidence that great ones you didn't weed out or of similar quality. It also makes it easier to determine what to tweak if you're struggling to fill the position.When your pool is unintentionally limited, it makes it harder to determine whether the reason youre struggling gettind good candidates is because the actual job that just sucks and so nobody good wants to take it or that you've set your compensation too low. Now, they know their job ad has the info that makes them financially competitive so issues landing candidates when rivals (for those candidates) are succeeding would imply either some other issue with the job ad or issue with the job or its location/performance.
Do they need to point out WA has an average sales tax of 10% as well?
If any recruiter is trying to sell you a benefit over the compensation it essentially means they’re gonna make you a lowball offer. I recently applied for an airline and when asked for the TC they were 50% lower than what i currently make but they were insisting the free standby flight travel perk makes up for it 😂
Spokane >> Seattle >> Bellevue
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