An ambient belief I’ve had for a while is that tech will likely standardize on a salary band for “costliest cities in the world” and another band for “everyone else.” I think many observers will be surprised where EE ends up, and surprised by how close it ends to top anchor.
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This implies, by the way, that one of the economic implications of an explosion of remote work adoption is that “old economy” firms employing engineers in e.g. Chicago or St. Louis are going to start finding themselves in shootouts with AppAmaGooBookSoft or startups.
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Note that if your engineering salary ladder tops out at $80k you will not necessarily find “Umm our tech lead just got a counteroffer from Google” to be a happy experience.
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“How do you feel about that?” I’m a capitalist. If a firm doesn’t metabolize engineering brainsweat as efficiently as the best software firms in world I recommend changing that, opening the hiring window, building a better career ladder than competitors have, or doing without.
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Common lifehack is to get hired in the Bay Area, then move to Texas but demand to keep the same salary.
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A funny observation is that everyone think that pricing a product as high as you can get away with is fair (ie. value you create, not cost) but same people consider that fair salary should be tied to cost of living (ie. cost, not value you create). I love doublethink
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It's a market. Employees can decide they want to live in San Francisco, pay state income tax and live in a million dollar shack or take a pay cut and live in a more affordable city and have several thousand dollars more in their bank account. I know which I've chosen.
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i have similar suspicions but do you have more data points?
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Anecdotally, 2/3 last tech companies where I’ve worked pay the same in all their major US engineering offices.
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none of the remote jobs I've had have used a cost of living factor in their salary function
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Gitlab have it explicitly built in, zapier pegged it to Austin
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