[randomsearch]

Well if your employer is based in NYC and they expect you to come to the office then presumably they can’t pay you Indonesian median pay. How is that hard to understand?

If you’re talking about remote, maybe the argument stands up more, but I’d add that if a remote worker adds less value to the company (which I believe as a rule to be true, like for like), then you would pay them accordingly by that reasoning.

[stavros]

> If you’re talking about remote

I am, as the post is too.

> then you would pay them accordingly by that reasoning.

Okay, but still none of these arguments means that one remote worker should be paid differently from another remote worker.

[lostdog]

Typically your pay reflects the company outbidding other offers. If you are able to work locally for large tech companies (in SF or NYC), then you get higher offers, which even the remote companies need to outbid.