> Let’s say you can both afford to save 30% of your salary and you go on to invest it in, say, the S&P500. Then after your career you’ll go and retire in Spain. Guess who’ll afford a better lifestyle? That’s right, the US citizen. Location based pay simply exploits employees of weaker economic regions. It’s common in our world but that doesn’t make it right.

I’m working at Google and moving back to Spain where I’m from where I will see my salary reduced by 50%. I love my team and my work but this is precisely the reason that will make me quit in favor of an American company that doesn’t adjust salary to region.

Plenty of non-FAANG American companies that would pay what I was being paid while based in Germany.

I strongly suspect I am not the only one.