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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 [b]job market[/b] - not the lifestyle of the employee.  [/quote]

So if I can outsource most of my functions to another country and pay 75% less, should I also give my US staff a 75% pay cut?[/quote]
DP.  Sweet pea, you are trying to operate way above your pay grade.  Maybe take an intro to economics course.  [/quote]

Cool.

Wanna answer the question, or just want to insult?[/quote]

If your company would still need some US-based employees, then you will need to pay a salary that will attract the necessary employees, even if it more than you would need to pay similar employees in another country.  If you want to outsource the rest, that is your choice.

For those US-based employees, if you need them near your physical office in a high COL area, then you need to pay huge local rate for that job.  If the job can be done remotely, you can cut costs by employing people from lower COL areas.  This is pretty basic management.

I am an attorney, and have been amazed at the shortsightedness of our legal assistants and other support staff clamoring to work from home full-time.  They seem to have zero appreciation that if they demonstrate the job can be done just as efficiently fully remotely, there is no reason for us to pay DC wages for local legal assistants when we can hire people in the Midwest for a fraction of the cost. [/quote]

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