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Most of the who's hiring posts offer remote work. The issue with posting a salary range is that the salary is very depending on the location of the person applying.

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Which is dumb. If you're hiring remotely and a small company, pay for the role not the candidates address. Want to save money? Then offer a lower salary but still get insane talent from Asia. Want to get some of the most insane candidates from Europe? Offer Bay Area rates and get top-tier PhDs with 20 years industry experience applying for your $130k role.

I never liked this argument, does your company charge differently based on the location to the people who is using its products? No. So why does it pay differently based on location?

Yes its not an uncommon practice to price products depending on the users location. https://www.steamregionalprices.com/ https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/countries-netfl...

you know that in some examples the company sells more expensive the products in the regions where they pay less salary. In that example the games are more expensive in euros than in dollars, but the companies from states probably will offer less salary to someone from Europe. So it is even worse with your example.

I think you are implying that goods should cost less if you get paid less but that is not the case and is not what I was suggesting.

Actually the justification to pay you less in some places is because cost of life is lower. Which is true because food and rent is less expensive, but some products are the same or more expensive (like technology). So quality of life is worse.

Is that really the case? Everyone seems to be talking about geopay but from what I heard it magically doesn’t apply to core contributors.

There’s a hunger for talent right now. While some businesses try to cut every corners, others are simply raising more money and hiring talent to innovate faster.

Why should salary be dependent on where I live if it’s in the US?

Because they feel they can get away with paying you less if you live in an area with a "lower cost of living". It's a way for the company to extract more value from the employee without having to pay the employee what they're actually worth.

Remember: you are an asset to the company only worth what you're willing to fight to be paid for. A company will pay you the least amount of money they can to keep you.

If the job is not remote or has on-site duties the argument becomes moot.

Then be honest about it.

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