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Our reasons for paying local rates can be found on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...

Paying the same wage in different regions would lead to:

1. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team.

2. Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income than ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

3. Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and unlikely to leave even when they are unhappy.

4. If we start paying everyone the highest wage our compensation costs would increase greatly, we can hire fewer people, and we would get less results.

5. If we start paying everyone the lowest wage we would not be able to attract and retain people in high-wage regions.

parent sytse 8 years ago

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