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by danaris
1584 days ago
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(Disclaimer: No real numbers were harmed in the making of this post.) If an employee doing Job X in San Francisco is worth $500k/yr to Google, then paying an employee doing the exact same job in NC $250k/yr because the CoL is lower there is padding Google's profits at the expense of the second employee—and, indirectly, all employees in the sector, because that depresses market rates. As I said in another post, I don't care about what's "efficient", or what makes Google the most money. I care about how they treat people. Google and its execs would not have their lives change in any meaningful way if they were to pay everyone who does Job X the same that they have to pay to attract people to that job in the Bay Area. But it might change the lives of some of their employees, and of employees of other tech-sector companies, if they were making an extra $100k, $50k, or even $10k/year. |
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It feels a bit out of touch to say that when they literally do make top-of-band salaries compared to other local companies even after pay cuts. As others have brought up, $250k in NC is pretty darn good pay.
We're not talking about a company squeezing out their janitors where an extra 1k/mo might mean they can quit a second night shift job or afford insuline or whatever. We're in "I want to be able to afford a Ferrari instead of a Tesla" territory. And I don't think I'd be alone in thinking that the latter is harder to sympathize with.
Your argument boils down to "pay me more", and I already took that to its logical conclusion: yes, of course you want to be paid more, get in line. Everyone wants to be paid more, but if that happens, then through the magic of inflation, everyone loses. What people really want is to be paid more while everyone else doesn't, because that's the only way that they get to keep the purchasing power of their money. And forgive me if this is too brutally blunt, but that's just selfishness masquerading as social justice.