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GitLab seem to be very open about that. They have a salary calculator that includes the location. https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...

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Wonder how that pays off for them in terms of hiring. Last time I was looking for a job, I put them near the bottom of my list because of the location-based scaling.

When we were still accepting applications we got 15,000 per month. I'm sure that this was so high because of all remote and that if we paid everyone SF rate that would have been even higher.

Same here. It’s interesting that they won’t know who never bothered to apply. A more typical company which doesn’t make their salaries public would notice if candidates repeatedly drop out of the hiring pipeline due to inadequate pay.

On the other hand they seem to be doing well as a business so recruiting evidently hasn’t been a big problem for them.

I wonder how you figure what counts as "Seattle," for instance. Does Tacoma count? It's a 40 min drive - people do commute to Seattle. Or is Tacoma under "everywhere else, WA"? It's a $50k/yr question despite the CoL difference not approaching that.

Right. I wouldn't mind moving back out to the redwood tree forest in Northern California, which can be as quick of a drive as 1 hour 30 minutes from SF, but realistically 2 or so hours.

All the other areas in CA it lists are super far away, but regardless I have a feeling it would count it as CA Everywhere Else, despite the prices out there not being far off from Silicon Valley.

Yes, they're very open about how they descriminate and earn more off employees who live in cheaper areas... It's a very weird stance to take and always infuriated me. They adopt a policy of radical transparency in their descrimination. Quite shocking too in the amount of pride they take in it, truly the market leaders in virtue signaling and disonnance.

And for those who don't think there's a better way, take a look at Basecamp or Zapier's salary policies.

this is very interesting.. backend engineers get paid more than front end at the same level.

some of the location multiplayers makes the roles completely insane, scotland for example.

> backend engineers get paid more than front end

I'm not surprised having setup a hosted GL instance. It's actually quite amazing how it mostly just works but when things go wrong between upgrades and migrations you quickly realize how complicated everything is under the hood.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/architecture.html#com...

digging into this, it doesn't seem to adjust for CoL but competitiveness of the market. Seattle and NYC have the same salary bracket, but NYC is by far more expensive. Nerd Wallet claims the city is between 37% to -6% more expensive depending on where you live (Manhattan vs Queens)

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