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Should remote workers be paid less if they move somewhere cheaper?

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I'll be the villain. I pay by location. An engineer in Bangalore and an engineer in San Francisco doing the same job get different numbers, always have, and nobody called it unfair until the San Francisco one moved to Boise and wanted to keep the San Francisco number. I didn't set the salary for the work. I set it for the market the person was in. If you leave the market, the number follows you down the way it followed you up. That's my view and I know how it sounds. Tell me where it's wrong.

— rohan.builds

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first time posting here but honestly if I could keep a Dublin salary and live in Donegal I'd do it tomorrow and I think I'd feel a bit guilty about it? like I'd know I was getting away with something. maybe that's the answer, it's a yes that feels like a no

— MistyFawn231

My company moved me to Osaka, then Tokyo, then Osaka again, and each time the salary changed with the city and nobody asked my opinion. I did not love it. I did not think it was a scandal. Perhaps it should have been.