Re:Our Handbook is open source: here's why
by repomies691 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @11:35AM
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So people are paid according what they spend, not what they produce? That doesn't sound very sensible to me.
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We thought about paying independent of location. If we pay everyone the same we would have either a huge burn rate or we could never hire great people from the Bay Area.
Another consideration is that people's costs are strongly related to where they live.
But I can also see the case for paying everyone the same. But I think other remote friendly companies are doing the same as us, this video shows how Travis CI thinks about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8u9H6JDAzo
> Another consideration is that people's costs are strongly related to where they live.
I think what's more important is that their competing offers from local companies will necessarily be higher, so assuming they're worth the higher price, you have to pay it.