[quote=deadzone][quote=an][quote=deadzone][quote=an]The 2nd sentence say 100% remote. We have no idea where the company head quarter is and we don’t care, since it’s 100% remote. For all we know, they don’t even have an office.
BTW, how do you know that’s bay area pay?[/quote]
No idea if that is Bay area pay, just picked that as an example cause it looked like higher salaries than are typical in San Diego.
But either way, I don’t see the logic that remote work would increase salaries, or that my company would pay me my San Diego salary, for example, if I chose to remote work from Arkansas. If that option was widely available, I guarantee a crap ton of folks would leave San Diego.[/quote]
If you say so[/quote]
No, if you say so. You are the one coming to an illogical assumption.
Look I would love to get a salary increase for working from home too. But not holding my breath it’s going to happen.[/quote]
Um….I’ve been trying to hire people. My company is cheap based out of florida, where’s suppose to be cheaper to hire and there’s no state income tax. My company has come to the following 2 conclusions
1) Top talent cannot be easily acquired in Florida alone
2) While it’s been proven at my company that we can get remote workers to work (especially SDET), no one outside of florida is going to join our company if we continue to only pay florida wages. Because top talent will find a higher paying remote job…
I was just authorized today to bump up the range of mid-level mobile engineers by quite a bit to stay competitive, above what my San Diegan engineers (which already were pretty well paid) is. The truth of the matter is I don’t see many of the remote workers running for cover in florida. most of them are choosing to stay where they currently are here in some being in SD, even if dollar for dollar they might be better off in Florida without paying for state income taxes.
The feedback is they are happy they can remain where they are for various reasons.. Most have family and kids to think about and don’t want to uproot their entire family. Most people have settled here and have their homes here, and their cost of living, for practical purposes is fixed given that they decided to buy a house years ago. In fact, now having a remote higher paying job allows them to remain where there are and not worry about the limited job prospects of only a local San Diego job market previously was available. It seems like the only ones that are really talking about leaving San Diego among peers are the ones who are getting left behind who still have limited career prospects and for which the side effects of remote working from the pandemic economy they did not benefit from and who’s cost of living (mainly housing) is no longer obtainable and struggling… Hourly, non-tech, non-remote-available comparable jobs.
There is an influx of highly paid workers from higher cost areas that think San Diego is cheap for what they are use to paying and the climate, schools, weather, etc and for them, this cost of living compared to what they were previously use to as their cost of living, is considered much more affordable. My tenants for instance have been with their LA companies for several years, and previously remote work was not an option for them. Now that is is, they will continue to reap their higher paid salary from LA company and be able to live in a much more affordable san diego (in terms of for the same amount they pay for housing in LA, they are getting a heck of a lot more down here).
