Re:Buffer’s Salary Formula 3.0
by StavrosK on Thursday January 04, 2018 @08:31AM
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You're overcomplicating this. At any given point, a rational company hiring remote is thinking:
"Who is the cheapest person I can hire that passes a quality bar?"
Why should they care about location at all? They just want the job done.
> Don't feel too sorry for people in low-cost centres who work gets redistributed to at a lower cost - in the long term work from the high-cost centres is shifting to them, unless there are quality reasons for it to stay in the high-cost areas.
I don't feel sorry for them (us), I just dislike it because I see job postings from companies I'd like to work at that say "Come work for us! Oh, you live in <place>? We can only make you an offer that's a fourth of what you're currently making at <other company>, sorry. Feel free to move to SF and our offer will go up fivefold, though!".
In the end, it's a free market and everyone does what they want, but these companies end up missing out on good people because they artificially restrict their search to high-cost areas (because people in low-cost areas won't work for these companies when they can get higher-paying work elsewhere). It just irks me to see that a company I like is engaging in misguided, indirect area targeting when they purport to do remote.
"Who is the cheapest person I can hire that passes a quality bar?"
Why should they care about location at all? They just want the job done.
> Don't feel too sorry for people in low-cost centres who work gets redistributed to at a lower cost - in the long term work from the high-cost centres is shifting to them, unless there are quality reasons for it to stay in the high-cost areas.
I don't feel sorry for them (us), I just dislike it because I see job postings from companies I'd like to work at that say "Come work for us! Oh, you live in <place>? We can only make you an offer that's a fourth of what you're currently making at <other company>, sorry. Feel free to move to SF and our offer will go up fivefold, though!".
In the end, it's a free market and everyone does what they want, but these companies end up missing out on good people because they artificially restrict their search to high-cost areas (because people in low-cost areas won't work for these companies when they can get higher-paying work elsewhere). It just irks me to see that a company I like is engaging in misguided, indirect area targeting when they purport to do remote.