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0 pointskeerthiko4y ago0 comments

For all the work they have done in getting remote-first culture established for large corps, their salary protocol is pretty backward.

Normalizing on employee locale adds so many assumptions about the life and lifestyle of the employee and their market that are somewhat unfair to incorporate into compensation.

Our company is far smaller, but also been remote-first for almost a decade, and flat salary structure based on role (we pretty much have just IC, lead or junior) and fully independent of location was the best.

Since we have two founders living in the Bay Area and in New York, two of the most expensive cities, a comfortable wage for those founders should be good enough for anyone anywhere.

For our own simplicity, we aligned compensation on gross (pre-tax) pay, so the take-home is slightly different between regions.

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golergka4y ago

There's nothing "fair" or "unfair" about salaries: it's just an open market. And their strategy is not a winning one. On my last remote job search, I encountered a few companies which were mimicking gitlab's approach (they actually said out loud that gitlab was where they got the idea). Needless to say, I accepted the offer from an American company which offered American salary instead. Three times as much as companies with "gitlab-like" policies offered me.

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