Are there still remote jobs (lower pay anticipated)

[Anonymous]

After being fully remote for several years I am having a tough time with a super long commute and demoralized environment. My health is suffering and it isn’t sustainable.

I’m also ok working in person for the right job, if close to my house, but I don’t expect to find anything in the current climate.

If I’m able to take a significant pay cut, are there still remote jobs to be had? If I go from like 140k to 70k?

[Anonymous]

What industry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What industry?

Don’t want to give myself up but data related field. Not sales.

[Anonymous]

It’s good you’re being realistic about a pay cut. I do think the other issue you will encounter is SO many people apply for these roles. I have a specific job title. The remote roles get close to 100 applicants in a day, the fully onsite ones get less than 15 and the hybrid somewhere in between.

Would you consider hybrid roles? I was being pushed back FT and switched jobs to a role requiring 3x a week onsite (got this in writing before starting). When I did start, I came to find out that the role is even more flexible (no one cares if I come in for a half day for a meeting, WFH three days versus two if I have an apt, etc.)

Wishing you luck with your search!

[Anonymous]

The most I have found are hybrid positions that require 3 or even 4 days in the office.

[Anonymous]

I job searched recently and I would say the vast majority of jobs I was looking at were 1-2 days in the office per week (of those most were 2 days per week). Maybe 15-20% were 3 days per week and a very small minority offered no telework at all.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I am not willing to take such huge pay cut to still have to go to an office on most days. A couple of days telework wouldn’t be worth it.

What I am looking for though, in the next few years, would be something fully remote so I can leave the DC area, or something in-person in a smaller city away from DC.
Mostly I just want to leave this godforsaken area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What industry?

Don’t want to give myself up but data related field. Not sales.

Are you the only person in this area with that job? How on Earth are you giving yourself away if you tell people the industry?

[Anonymous]

They're harder to find but exist. I found a unicorn and left my 160k job 5 days a week in office for 250k and basically fully remote, however like a PP it was advertised as hybrid 2 days a week in office. The reality is that the company has been remote forward since before the pandemic and the people I work with are all over the US so I only go in to go to lunch with key people which we coordinate about once every other month. I'd apply to the hybrid jobs that aren't a terrible commute as well as those billed as fully remote.

[Anonymous]

I'm a data scientist/engineer and there are definitely remote jobs. They're just even more competitive, so the networking piece becomes even more important.

[Anonymous]

I went from 80k to 130k and fully remote.

Husband just did the opposite. Got laid off at $170k and is likely getting an offer in the $120k range fully remote.

[Anonymous]

I took a fully remote position for lateral pay at 150k. It depends.

[Anonymous]

The number of remote roles that exist, how competitive they are, and how the salaries compare to on-site roles is going to depend on the industry and the particulars of the job.

I lead hiring in my company. We offer hybrid but not fully remote, and we turn away candidates who want fully remote every day. There are fewer and fewer remote jobs out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're harder to find but exist. I found a unicorn and left my 160k job 5 days a week in office for 250k and basically fully remote, however like a PP it was advertised as hybrid 2 days a week in office. The reality is that the company has been remote forward since before the pandemic and the people I work with are all over the US so I only go in to go to lunch with key people which we coordinate about once every other month. I'd apply to the hybrid jobs that aren't a terrible commute as well as those billed as fully remote.

What kind of job went from 160 to 250k?

[Anonymous]

I have a fully remote job that has been this way since 2020. Biotech/CRO