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Comment by DogLover_ | Hacker News Reader

If I have to guess, they mean within US

So Spotify employees in Stockholm would earn differently than the ones in the US? Doesn't really sound like "continuing to pay New York City-level salaries to workers no matter where they're based" if that's the case.

Edit:

Here's a source that says they pay the same no matter if you're in the office or at home (basically), but it's limited to countries Spotify agrees you can be in:

> Location choices – we will also introduce more flexibility when it comes to what country and city each employee works from (with some limitations to address time zone difficulties, and regional entity laws in the initial rollout of this program).

- "Introducing Working From Anywhere" - https://hrblog.spotify.com/2021/02/12/introducing-working-fr...

- "Distributed-First Is the Future of Work at Spotify" - https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-12/distributed-first-is...

My guess is that they still pay US higher but I have no evidence of it. AirBnB also allows you to work from anywhere but if you look at their job-listing they still show location as San Francisco for pretty much all of the jobs.

Of course. Pay is always set as low as possible to retain the right level of employee. If the market for engineers in the US is higher than Europe (it is) it will pay higher.

Salaries are set per country. So someone in North Dakota will get the same salary as someone in NYC.

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