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...yes? Cost of living between Mexico to San Francisco probably in the neighborhood of 4x, depending on which part of Mexico. 500000 MXN rounds to $25k, which is 1/4 of $100k.
Cost of surviving(food, shelter, boose) - yes. What about cost of having trip around the world for vacation, building your retirement fund, price of the iphone, car?
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That's messed up. Unless there's a separate component like local-cost-of-living-adjustment where you get extra for living in a high-rent area.
it's not messed up. Otherwise you're overpaying by 4x compared to local positions. Which means the person will probably never leave if they're unhappy etc.
Again, if it's just the cost-of-living bonus (like, all our engineers get $80K, plus $X/month where X is average rent and groceries, plus Y% for taxes) then it's fine. Otherwise it's valuing someone less purely on their geographical location.
Edit: Also, really, overpaying so they might be unhappy? "We're giving you less money for your own good!" Presumably if they're a world-class engineer and can work remotely at one place, they can find another remote job, too...
I'd like to land one (1) FT remote job, and here we've got folks talking about working two at the same time :)
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Cost of surviving(food, shelter, boose) - yes. What about cost of having trip around the world for vacation, building your retirement fund, price of the iphone, car?
Well, the retirement fund might be more CoL adjusted, if you intend to retire to the same region you currently reside.
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I feel like it's kinda impressive that he managed to keep that up for 8 months. What were the two jobs exactly?
Software developer!
No! I'll feel bad to cheat someone else - and I don't like to feel bad:)
I don't want to be "that guy," but... If it's a salaried position, you're presumably not filling in an hours sheet dishonestly. Is it truly cheating if both companies are happy with your work and you're not breaking either company's rules? Even if you don't explicitly tell them you're doing it?
What's the surprise?
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Lol I had to negotiate to get about a quarter of that salary. I know Travis CI limits your pay to your region. GitLab as well. Difference from Mexico to San Francisco is about 4x.
That's messed up. Unless there's a separate component like local-cost-of-living-adjustment where you get extra for living in a high-rent area.
Someone living in SF will have many high-paid opportunities so they have to match that.
On the other hand they know someone not willing to relocate won't have the same opportunities locally or with remote jobs, so they can afford to pay them less.
If ever were in such an enviable position, these are the potential pitfalls I might see.
- The companies schedule mandatory meetings at the same time.
- The companies schedule on-site days that make travel arrangements impossible.
- Conflict of interest between companies.
- The companies don't actually care, but you hide it anyway, and they care about that.
- The companies do care, but you tell them, and they retaliate for the embarrassment.
- Tax withholding comes out wrong, and you are fined for it.
- Someone you met through both companies outs you.
- One of your companies is acquired by or merged into the other.
- Your life is converted to an 80s-style sitcom script, and you aren't even credited.Since when is working two jobs a bad thing? Plenty of people work two or three jobs to make ends meet. If you can make both work, and you aren't violating any contracts or NDAs, I don't see why you should feel bad about that.
Workaday without overtime (and working that much is too little I was told by people here) is 8 hours. Assuming you work it twice plus take 2 hours a day for shopping, food and shower, you have only 6 hours sleep remaining. With such persistent sleep deprivation, you wont be able to produce all that much for each employer - your productivity will go down. Then it is just a question of whether either management finds out.