Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by rayiner on Sunday February 14, 2021 @04:29PM
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> Remote work floods the supply with lots more available workers than they can find in any one city, so salaries for those roles go down.
You’re correct, but that’s not what’s happening here. Facebook isn’t paying remote workers uniformly less than in person workers. It is paying different amounts for different remote workers depending on where they live. That makes no sense given that, as you observe, there is a single national market for remote workers. The fact that Facebook can do that is an indicator that it either has market power in the employment market for programmers, or that we’re in an odd situation where the market hasn’t reached equilibrium.
You’re correct, but that’s not what’s happening here. Facebook isn’t paying remote workers uniformly less than in person workers. It is paying different amounts for different remote workers depending on where they live. That makes no sense given that, as you observe, there is a single national market for remote workers. The fact that Facebook can do that is an indicator that it either has market power in the employment market for programmers, or that we’re in an odd situation where the market hasn’t reached equilibrium.