From my understanding pay-cuts have little to do with the perceived production of a remote employee but rather has to do with adjusting for the cost of living where the employee resides.
I think pay should be location agnostic and there's little to no research to suggest that remote workers are less productive so I don't see a reason to cut pay.
Agreed. Also not having to pay for office space, furniture, equipment, utilities, electricity etc. for on site employees should give the employer maybe some little extra savings they could pass on to their remote workers... But no some of them decide to be double cheap 🤷
I think it's OK to change salaries based on where you are. If I live in NYC or SF then a salary of lets say $120k won't be enough of will barely be enough because of cost of living, but take that pay to somewhere like Denver or Atlanta and all of a sudden that $120k will buy you more than you ever could in NYC/SF.
So I feel like pay based on where you live is OK. At the end of the day if you want to draw talent from costly cities then you are just going to have to pay them more or else they won't be able to afford to work for you.
It's not John is more qualified than Jane so he gets an extra $50k a year. It's John has 4x the monthly rent that Jane does so without the extra 50k he can't even take the job.
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From my understanding pay-cuts have little to do with the perceived production of a remote employee but rather has to do with adjusting for the cost of living where the employee resides.
I think pay should be location agnostic and there's little to no research to suggest that remote workers are less productive so I don't see a reason to cut pay.
Agreed. Also not having to pay for office space, furniture, equipment, utilities, electricity etc. for on site employees should give the employer maybe some little extra savings they could pass on to their remote workers... But no some of them decide to be double cheap 🤷
I think it's OK to change salaries based on where you are. If I live in NYC or SF then a salary of lets say $120k won't be enough of will barely be enough because of cost of living, but take that pay to somewhere like Denver or Atlanta and all of a sudden that $120k will buy you more than you ever could in NYC/SF.
So I feel like pay based on where you live is OK. At the end of the day if you want to draw talent from costly cities then you are just going to have to pay them more or else they won't be able to afford to work for you.
It's not John is more qualified than Jane so he gets an extra $50k a year. It's John has 4x the monthly rent that Jane does so without the extra 50k he can't even take the job.