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Yep. Just like relocating between cities while at the same company will cause your payscale to adjust.

Look at the US Federal Government, or most state governments. There is X Pay for the position, and then that pay has a modifier based on location & cost of living. A GS 8 makes $41,310. That's their base Salary. Now in Seattle, that comes out to $52,472. In Albany, NY it's $48,696 due to locality.

Not controversial at all.

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For remote workers, though, where the company doesn't care if a given worker is in Seattle or Albany there is no need to pay them different amounts for the same work. They just need one pay level for that work, which is high enough to get enough total workers to fill all their remote openings.

I expect it to eventually end up that most companies will have N+1 pay scales, where N is the number of cities they have offices in: one pay scale in each city where they have offices for the workers who actually work in those offices, and one pay scale for remote workers.

Exactly, this is like HR 101 right? These companies didn't even have to deploy a new payroll system, let alone invent anything. If HR people spent more time innovating and less time at conferences they'd figure out how to cut your pay when you log in on vacation.

I have never in my life worked for a company that had an office and no remote workers. There's always someone in Montana or something. This is not new, at all.

Haha hi from Montana.

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