I think people overestimate the degree of salary differential between tech employees in the same nation but different offices/working remotely/etc. There are strong process/internal fairness/social reasons to not adjust as aggressively as a cost of living calculator suggests.
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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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Probably everyone else
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EE?
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As a person living in Amsterdam I can tell you that european salaries are surprisingly smaller than US ones. Even in european offices of some of the FAANGs. GitLab's calculator: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/compensation-calculator/calculator/ … , – gives about 2 times difference for SF vs Amsterdam, for example.
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Ergo, move to middle of nowhere ;-]
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A former employer paid me the same eng. salary from when I lived in downtown SF after I moved to a state with no income tax. Competitive with Google. We had incredibly talented employees located all across the country in places you wouldn’t expect.
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What is EE?
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