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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m federal government and we decrease pay based on where you live remotely. Except I think you can’t make more than where your work is located. Like we get the DC pay scale and you can’t be paid the nyc scale even if you’re working in nyc because we don’t need you to be in nyc. [/quote]

This is kind of the opposite of how it works. There is a base salary for your work. Then the government [i]increases[/i] pay based on cost of living where your work is located. If it's an office in DC, you get DC locality pay on top of the "base." If you go remote to a lower cost area, then you get whatever the locality pay is for that area because that's your new work location. E.g. Atlanta gets a slightly smaller COL increase than DC, and rural northern PA gets just the base.

You are right that you can't opt to get higher pay than where your office is located, because that would be a net loss to the government of having you work remotely.

[b]Honestly, none of this seems remotely unfair to me[/b].[/quote]

It does to me.  If we apply locality pay, I think we should also pay single people less.  After all, they don’t have a family to support.  Or what about people who have a working spouse?

I think an employer should pay a salary commensurate with the job and job market - not the lifestyle of the employee.  [/quote]
DP.. you seem really young and idealistic. That isn't how it works.  It's about COL and commiserate pay. You having kids has nothing to do with your employer.  Your employer is paying for your work and will pay you market rate of where you live.   That's standard practice.[/quote]

Don’t see how COL is any more or less than familial status.  Or perhaps suburban versus.  Perhaps they should lower salaries of workers who live in exurbs?  Or what about employees who inherited their home?  [/quote]
Again, you seem really young and naive.

[b]Your family life choices have nothing to do with your employer.[/b]

Exurbs are still part of the metro area, and pay will commiserate. [/quote]

Then why are you suggesting that moving my a family to a different city should result in a decrease in pay?[/quote]

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