[kbrwn]

This is constantly brought up on HN in the WFH threads.

Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has to terminate employment and rehire to reduce salary.

Very few big tech companies will update salary for a intra country move. It seems to happen most often when an employee relocates to a new country rather than a new state. This is because the new country requires a different work agreement and must follow different labor laws.

[nkohari]

> Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has to terminate employment and rehire to reduce salary.

There might be state regulations to this effect -- and IANAL -- but there's no such federal law in the US. An employer can cut an employee's pay at any point to any value above the minimum wage, as long as they inform the employee their pay has been cut.

[stagger87]

Are you sure about that? Everything I read says an employer can reduce your pay without reason at any time. Can you elaborate?