Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley with Them

Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall... by duxup on Monday November 02, 2020 @01:05PM (#24971032)

I worked for a valley company that changed people's salary if they moved to a new office. Work in the valley, make more, if you moved they'd lower your pay.

Midwest salaries were notably lower.

Oddly enough it was more of a issue brought up by folks at HQ as they knew they were more expensive and a particular group was really paranoid about it... like constantly. It was a bad scene.

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Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall... by conductr on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:54PM (#24975891)

I have a similar but totally different example from a non-tech field. I live in Texas. We had an office in Bay Area. Sometime we had people in Texas that reported to a higher level people in Bay Area.

For whatever reason, market rate of pay in Bay Area for this field was similar to the market in Texas. However COL had a large variance. We were a pretty tight bunch that knew basic details of each other’s personal lives. It was crazy the amount of subtle strife this dynamic caused. When someone in Texas buys a large home and a new BMW or is traveling all the time. And their peer or even boss in Bay Area is struggling to split an apartment with a roommate well after “roommate appropriate age” by Texas standards.

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Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall... by ticmasta on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:58PM (#24975234)

This seems similar to how I felt when consulting and knew I was billing at a much higher rate than others. Even if there is some form of value-for-money angle you feel like you have a target on your back and will be an early "win" for the bean counters when the knifes come out. My advice: be prepared for the end at anytime (like 4pm today) and enjoy it while you can!

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