Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own op...
by mulmen on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:01AM
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Oh I thought it was a marketplace.
Salaries aren’t high in the bay because houses are expensive. Houses are expensive because salaries are high. There happens to be a concentration of talented and highly compensated people there. That doesn’t mean they will settle for less elsewhere.
If you can't tie your actions directly to cost savings or revenue increases you're just blowing smoke up your manager's ass about value created anyway. It's all hand-wavey negotiation and negotiation is almost entirely based around leverage.