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.
There are strong process/internal fairness/social reasons to not adjust as aggressively as a cost of living calculator suggests.
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.
I think many observers will be surprised where EE ends up, and surprised by how close it ends to top anchor.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
