Remote Work Salaries

Google, Apple, Facebook are starting to adapt their salaries based on location of remote employees. Im working remote for the past 7 years in middle management, and Im living in a low wage country.If my employees started adapting my salary based on the country I live in I would quit immediately

You are either a company who knows how to make remote work -- in which case it doesn't matter where people live and you can afford to pay them the same rates. Or you're a company that can't make remote works and relies on having people go into the office, and if so you can get by with paying local rates. But as more and more companies figure out remote work, I think local rates will mostly disappear, especially for developers.

Sure, to some extent. However you have to remember the following points:- Not all employers want remotely based staff- If the wages are significantly better than local jobs, the developers may compete with each other by offering lower wages- It may be harder to find remote staff than local staff- While it's easy to say "pay him more and he'll move to us", it's worth remembering that workers in any industry don't always chose jobs based on salary alone.- If companies continue raisi

I've been thinking of going remote in the next few years. Something I'm curious about is how it affects salary negotiation. To those of you who work remotely, have you found that companies typically try to pay you less than their on-site developers because you most likely live in a cheaper area?

The upside of hiring remote workers should be to allow you to get the best workers no matters where your company is located. Good employees (those that would be able to get a job in Silicon Valley) will bring profit to your company no matter where they are located.To pay a worker less because they chose to, say, move back to their hometown to take care of their relatives puts a sour taste in my mouth. Reducing people's pay because they moved to another location makes no sense to me.Gi

Interesting and what if i work remotely from a poor country? would i be subject to the same salary as them?

In a world where no companies scale pay based on employee location:- It's rare that employees in expensive areas do not get to work remotely - because there would almost always be someone of similar skill in a cheaper location to hire- It's rare that a company that has in-office workers in an expensive area would hire someone working remotely - because they are certainly paying the local workers more than what would be considered normal for a remote worker... because those local

That's the first guys point, remote enables cheaper american salaries, a better option for the company but bad for you (sorry)

Supporting remote work can come at a cost to an employer so it does make some sense to me to offer less money in those cases and inversely, more money if you move to their town to work there. Other than that equal pay is more fair indeed. I think things have mostly gotten crazy along with some housing markets. Perhaps this will slowly disperse the extreme concentrations of wealth throughout countries with employers opening up more offices at cheaper locations. Or they will have to prove that tho

Wouldn't the company have an incentive to pay you European rates for your remote work then?