💥 We announced an exciting change recently at Wildbit: location-agnostic pay. Everyone on the Wildbit team will be paid consistently regardless of where they live, and we’ve benchmarked our compensation to Philadelphia.
We’ve been a remote company from day one, and a software developer in Romania is doing just as exceptional work as someone in Philly. Shouldn’t it be equal pay for equal work? wildbit.com/blog/2021/06/2…
This was something we had hoped to accomplish for many years. And we couldn’t have done it without @leiarollag deep experience. She took an idea—our dream—and modeled the whole thing out to look at real-life scenarios. What would it cost? Who would be affected?
It pays to be product agnostic. @postmarkapp is doing exceptionally well. Our team is great at building high-value, low-maintenance products that provide cash to spend on projects like this one, allowing us to take the profits and give them directly back to the team.
Why Philly? @cnagele and I live here. It’s also where the business is incorporated. Philly is competitive when it comes to comp. It's the next top tier after SF and NYC. The math to get everyone to Philly was not only financially doable, but also very impactful to our team.
Location-agnostic pay is right for us. That doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. There are some unanswered questions, and some decent arguments around why paying local rates may be the right choice for some companies.
With this change we can firm up the fact that Wildbit would never lower your salary if you move to a place with a lower cost of living, move within roles, or move within teams. That’s not how it works here.
Oh and btw, we’re hiring! 🎉 If you’re looking for a job where you are paid an equitable salary, work 32-hour weeks, with wonderful humans w/strong values in a profitable, calm, people-first, company, apply! 7 open roles now with more roles coming soon: wildbit.com/careers
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