Re:Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k
by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:54AM
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I don't know why you were down-voted. Practically every company does 1 these days.
I'd have more respect for a company that says "we pay everyone at least 40k" and doesn't outsource the janitor.
If you have one office location that takes a crew one or two hours to clean per week, why would you have someone on staff to do that?
That's completely irrelevant or disingenuous. Obviously you can prorate an annual wage to Basecamp's advertised hours per year of work.
Re:Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k
by scarface74 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:16PM
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I would think that most small companies don’t own their own office and are renting space in a building where the building owners contract out cleaning for all of the tenants.
It's irrelevant if market rate is below what you pay, as long as you can afford it; employees won't complain and leave for being overpaid.
The Google masseuse got $millions (in the IPO).
This is a tough problem to solve but nice they are trying. Paying a receptionist or cleaning person $70k doesn’t make much sense because it’s way above market rate. But outsourcing to a company paying $11/hour doesn’t fit into the “everybody makes a good amount” message.