Re:"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
by kstrauser on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:08PM
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I am 100% behind you on this.
Also consider that so many expenses in life are the same wherever you live. For instance, Apple charges the same for a MacBook Pro delivered to Iowa as San Francisco, so if your Iowa rate is half that of San Francisco's, that new laptop takes you twice as many hours to buy. And for what? Also, someone's student loans don't change when they move from a more expensive place to a cheaper one, so in absolute terms anyone making fixed payment stands to take a massive pay cut if they move to a place with COL-based salary changes.
My company is remote-only for now. Without asking them, I have no idea whether my coworkers are in Berkeley or Des Moines. Why should the one living in a cheaper please make less than the one next door? Yes, I completely understand why an employer would like to pay less salary to the latter, but I can't think of any defensible reason that would make the person in Iowa OK with this.
Also consider that so many expenses in life are the same wherever you live. For instance, Apple charges the same for a MacBook Pro delivered to Iowa as San Francisco, so if your Iowa rate is half that of San Francisco's, that new laptop takes you twice as many hours to buy. And for what? Also, someone's student loans don't change when they move from a more expensive place to a cheaper one, so in absolute terms anyone making fixed payment stands to take a massive pay cut if they move to a place with COL-based salary changes.
My company is remote-only for now. Without asking them, I have no idea whether my coworkers are in Berkeley or Des Moines. Why should the one living in a cheaper please make less than the one next door? Yes, I completely understand why an employer would like to pay less salary to the latter, but I can't think of any defensible reason that would make the person in Iowa OK with this.