Anonymous wrote:And some renote companies may go back and prefer hires closer to office

Some may but it require my employer to add buildings, which it definitely would not do.

And some renote companies may go back and prefer hires closer to office

Although I was hired fully remote this summer, there isn’t much of an option to work on site if I were local anyway. I work for a huge corporation and they often don’t have enough seats. My boss lost her office a couple months ago and is now fully remote too.

I’ve had a research position that is fully remote for years (way before Covid). I sometimes travel for work depending on the topic I’m researching - for me, this has varied from no travel to about 8 weeks in a given year. I do choose to go to the office now and then - maybe 10 times a year.

My husband is fully remote software engineer. Although they have occasional company retreats or conferences to attend, his employer doesn’t really have an office. (One space in one of the places where some staff live with seating capacity for about 2-3% of their total workforce. He would have to fly multiple hours to go.)

Make sure to put on your linkedin profile that you're open to switching jobs (there's a setting that's not the green banner that everyone can see, but instead something that only recruiters can see), and then there's also a field for location and you can select remote only. I did this and got contacted recently by a company that was interested in me, with no pay cut.

I have been at 2 fully remote companies since 2021. Was recently laid off and had to take at $35K paycut to find another remote job. I wasn’t looking for fully remote but this was the job I got. The problem I am finding with most fully remote jobs is that they tend to be smaller companies, often “start ups” which means you can’t plan to be there for 5 years. I also hate onboarding remotely. I think finding a hybrid job would be the best bet and if they like you they may let you go fully remote after a few years.

I recently interviewed for a remote job with a small professional society where everyone is remote. Pay was $100k (didn't get the position).

This is bumming me out. My job required me to be in person these last 5 years (and giving it 150% every day). I was really hoping to go remote for a few years as a transition to retirement.

The good ones do not advertise it as a remote job. They want to hire people who want the role and are passionate about it, not who are just looking for remote work.

I make $335k remote if I went in person to an equivalent sized tech company I would make $700k so I am sacrificing a bit until the kids get older

Anonymous wrote: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.

This. Until recently it felt like no one on DCUM worked in a hybrid or fully in office position, but that’s simply was not the norm for the vast majority of working people and now it appears that many DCUM folks have joined those ranks too. Cast a wide net and apply to those hybrid jobs in smaller markets where you could see yourself living. I went from $135K - $285K in 2022 and now my comp is over $400K while still remote. It’s possible to find a unicorn now, but much harder to find and much more competitive to get.

Most anything that can be done remotely is now being outsourced overseas (thank better internet tech availability) and probably soon to be all A.I. dominated as well.

Wise is hiring for fintech banking

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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?

One where 160 is totally out of line with industry expectations and reliant on underperforming stock.

Competition is very fierce for the remaining ones and those that have them aren't giving them up.