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Mmm, that is pretty far off. If I understand correctly you're a developer intern in Orlando. In most countries interns are paid less than juniors. Maybe that is not the case in the US currently?

BTW Our compensation principles can be found at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

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Definitely not an intern anymore ;)

Edit: and yeah, I've read a lot about your company including that link. I understand your approach, it just excludes me.

I must have found a different person, sorry. Can you please email ernst@gitlab.com with your case? If the calculator is so far off we would love to add that data point. The most heard criticism seems to be that for low rent parts of the US the calculator is too low. Before our last change the biggest problem was that for hot cities (Phoenix and Austin) it was too low, we now fixed that.

No, you found the right person, it's just dated information :) I was an intern ~2 years ago.

I'm in Phoenix, and it still seems a bit low.. about 16-20k off at lead with high experience... seeing roles around $130k locally. One of the sites like glassdoor is seeing an average around your top.

For U.S. it may be best to establish a floor, and for most cities don't go below that... Remote work in the U.S. tends to be closer to 65-75% of Northern California pay, from what I've seen. Often more than local rates, but harder to come by the jobs.

Seriously? BTW! I just checked the calculator again and the time I was offered a job, there was no calculator then. The calculator pretty much offers the same amount that I asked for but still Gitlab decided to waste by time by saying we expect to pay 70-80k max. The range is clearly 115-120k and I don't think you understand the concept of remote teams when this range can be quite different than US which I explained to your HR as well.

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