[prlambert]

"If I worked remotely for Facebook and wanted to move somewhere central where rents are three times higher, would Zuck give me a raise? Somehow I doubt it."

I can't speak for Zuck, but Sundar does. I work for Google. We also have local market indexed compensation (which I support, but not relevant to this point). If you move to a city with higher labor prices, you get paid more. I've seen it multiple times with people in my team. It's a total non issue, just paperwork. Very very standard.

[blackshaw]

That's not really what I meant though. I don't work for Google, but I imagine their "local market-indexed compensation" assigns a single weighting to London, even though the CoL within London varies by an order of magnitude (at least in terms of rent) depending on where exactly you live. If we take the location-based pay argument to its logical extreme, why introduce an upper limit?

(Yes, I know it's not really this simple. Just trying to provide some food for thought.)