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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#18443531)
"employees in hotter job markets have more leverage because t"

No, cost of living does not imply hotter markets for software developers.

Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive with not tons of devs, and devs are lower paid.

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Re:GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working... by TulliusCicero on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:44PM (#18443560)
They use a "rent index", "hot market adjustment", and "country factor" to account for that, I think.

> Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive with not tons of devs, and devs are lower paid.

True enough, but rent correlates with tech salary pretty well within the US at least, where I'm guessing most of their employees are.

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