Ask HN: My Job Is Great but They Don't Pay Me Enough for a Major Change
I'm incredibly fortunate to be a US software dev working remotely from a very low CoL country. The company I work for is great too. Super understanding about stress and life commitments, and well managed projects without excessive meetings. Furthermore, we make a product that I actually believe is good.
My problem is that I will be moving back to the US in 1-2 year with my family and we want to live in a high CoL part of the US (where her family lives).
She is not a US citizen, so we will be single income for a while.
My raise last year was less than 10% with a promotion and it was the biggest on my team.
Is there a way I can communicate to my company that I would need at least a 50% raise over the next two years in order to provide for my family?
I know people here like to say "Just live somewhere cheaper", but I'm sure you could understand that we would very much like to live near her American family.