Should Your Salary Reflect Your Job Or Your Location?

I think you already know the answer, but let’s just state it for the record.

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There’s always an intense amount of debate around this particular subject, primarily driven by the repeated nauseous and transparent attempts at profile amplification on social media sites like LinkedIn where traffic is pretty much always driven by rage inducing articles and deliberately divisive polls.

The central point at issue here is whether or not your location, where you actually choose to live as a person rather than an employee, plays any part in what your salary should be — in current times.

This, naturally, induces a fair amount of rage amongst progressive software engineers making their moves in the Grand Game, so let’s take a look at the issue, how it came about, and how I feel it should be addressed.

Disclaimer:
Let’s leave aside those industries where attendance is physically required as they weren’t ever able to have remote working, but concentrate on those jobs where it is a possibility either part time (employers have taken to calling this “hybrid working” and still make out it’s still some kind of begrudged favour) or full time.

Considering it objectively, knowing that a company has no business having an interest in where an employee…