[tasuki]

Apart from being a turn-off, the location factors are also off:

Poland - 33.3

Czech Republic - 37

Belarus - 41

Moldova - 41

[oakesm9]

Same thing for People from Leed, UK having a higher factor than Brighton, UK. Brighton has the highest living costs in the UK outside of London.

[chrisseaton]

They can set their salaries however they want I guess - none of my business. And it must work for them if they're hiring the people they want.

But I looked at GitLab's compensation recently when I was switching job, and even when I maxed every thing out (not saying I'm that good) the pay for the UK was terrible - completely unworkable for a professional software engineer on the global market. I think they had the UK as having lower cost of living than places like the Czech Republic. I know for a fact that cost of living in the UK is not lower than in the Czech Republic. But worse than that they had these little islands of reported higher cost of living. Individual cities like Bristol. I suspect someone influential lived there and wanted to be paid more and they managed to get a special case.

I think I earned more as an intern while a university student with another company, than GitLab's top-tier engineer salary.

[rdouglas1]

The location factor applies to anyone living within commutable distance or 1.75hours / 1hr 45 mins. So someone living in central Brighton would be in the London location factor.

[dempedempe]

Vancouver, BC - 60 Seattle, WA - 90

Vancouver is more expensive than Seattle...

And Cuba is 41.1, while Mexico is 35??

[tyingq]

Probably average market salary based versus cost of living based. That would explain Seattle, for example.

[tossing67GL]

You can actually open a Merge Request to fix it! (or raise awareness)

[patrec]

I hate to break it to you guys, but the reason Shitsville, TN has has a higher multiplier is not because someone at Gitlab is terribly confused about the relative cost of living in Shitsville, TN vs Paris and London.