Most companies based out of SF will only hire local employees because they want to justify their huge real estate expenses. If they do hire remote, they all try and pay local market rates for where you are based out of.
In the end, the trade-offs in pay are worth it for me since I've gotten significantly better types of work, and significantly better quality of life. It still irks me though, since I know I provide the same or better value as I did while my butt was situated in SF.
If you are not looking in the Bay then you will probably still come out ahead by not spending 2 hours a day commuting.
$75/hr * 2 hours/day * 262 workdays/year = $39K/yr lost commuting. Not including the actual costs of commuting (car, gas, tires, parking, sanity).
So outside the Bay it works out about the same assuming you don't generate any additional revenue in the two hours you would have spent commuting.
If you're already at the top marginal tax rate, saving 20-30 grand a year can be equivalent to earning 40-45 grand a year, and it's not crazy to think living outside the city could save that much.
It's possible my career has taken a hit due to being remote for the last few years but I get paid around $400k and I live in a nice little COL place.
It's remotely possible I could rate 2x that if I was in the valley, but it's by no means guaranteed. I could also make the same or less.
I wanna believe, but I'm skeptical & I'll believe it when I see it. Would certainly love details!
If I could pay someone to do the marketing side for me, it would be a much more attractive option.
It was just a normal w-2 fte role so there was no concern about being on a contract.
I suppose that you're marketing to whoever you're working with, but that marketing takes the form of working systems, quick iteration, and good communication. And really, you want to provide all of these whether remote or not.
Once they see that you're doing well working remotely, there's a higher chance of letting you do that permanently
Currently working remote (domiciled in S. Dakota but working overseas) collecting a $300k+ California salary.
1) went to a local tech meetup, spoke a few times and attended regularly. The organizer for the meetup worked remotely for the company, they referred me in.
2) I wound up on a slack group for people using my particular tech stack. Had a crummy day on the job and asked in their hiring channel if anyone was hiring remote. Someone reached out to me and took my resume, and it led to an offer in fairly short order.
This job encouraged conference/meetup attendance and speaking. I spoke at a couple conferences as well at a meetup or two in my company's HQ. Which led me to:
3) Sent my resume to people I knew at the company, whom I'd met from meetups and conferences, as well as interacted with on that Slack. The interview was, as a result, super chill. The vibe really was "from a technical perspective you're a known quantity to us, we want the rest of the team to talk to you and make sure you're not a jerk."
For me, remote jobs are displayed on Indeed by specifying "Remote" in the Where field of the web page or l query string parameter:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
