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100% wrong
Then donāt work for Facebook
Why is it wrong
Fk Facebook
G spot here
One more G here make them G-Unit.
This is right. Youāll still be paid above market but the savings of time, flexibility, and freedom will be worth far more. Also, it will be less disruptive to local communities by closing the wage gap. Folks donāt want ārich tech workersā moving to their community and driving up prices. Their cost of living will increase beyond affordability.
Remote work allows people to spread around the country, so they donāt need to live in the same place, increasing demand and cost of living there. So it will be 5 IT guys in low-cost area, not 1000 converting it to high-cost. Now you are saying that it makes sense to pay less to that 5 guys so they look like local. First of all, itās not fair ā I want pay to match my skills, not salaries of people in my community. Second ā even lower pay will make that guys to be 1% earners, so it changes nothing.
There will be hubs of tech workers in communities. Nobody is going to move where theyāre an outlier. Your pay is not based on your skills alone. Itās based on the local cost of living. Itās always been this way. Why do you think everyone moves to the SF Bay Area?
It makes sense if people have to live near the office in expensive area ā itās the company choice where its employees have to be located, so itās the company responsibility to pay for that. But if work is remote, company doesnāt force people to live in particular place, so should not compensate people differently. Itās their choice to live where they like given many factors including prices.
Bay Area jobs only paid that because the CoL is astronomical out there. This is the natural equilibrium now that Facebook can get that talent wherever it is.
Well, partly. But also there is tremendous competition for software talent. People move to Bay Area.
At least to match the state tax effect is ok. Ie from 11% cali to 0% wa/tx/fl would be already equivalent to 13% cut. It means same net wage actually
This is how literally every company minus a few like reddit (that tend to under pay in Bay area) work. What I don't agree with personally is adjusting on cost of labor rather than cost of living. Cost of living is a much more fair and employee centric measurement to decide pay scales on. So unfortunately you can live somewhere still very expensive but with cheaper labor and get paid less. If companies were doing this for their employees and not themselves it would be decided on cost of living but unfortunately we know the only real motive is to cut costs and exploit labor. All that being said I'm still a proponent for this change, it'd be nice to see more companies make initiatives to make pay adjustments fair and not exploitative though.
Reddit adjusted its pay scale last summer. I think itās pretty competitive
And as you indicated, they pay all US employees the same thing no matter where in the country you live.
This is 100% right but the pay cut is between 5% to 30%.
Do you know what it would be for Canada?
Thank you, I am interviewing for a remote DE position right now, in a large Midwestern city (not Chicago) and have been curious
Same everywhere, no problem
100% right
It's not 100% right, but it is more right than it is wrong
100% right allowing employees to work remote. 100% wrong doing locality change pay. Pay people what they are worth not based on where they live.