Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
That precedent has been around for ages. I mean, if your familiar with the Federal government, they provide a base-pay and a locality-bump.
Also, because your retirement is based on your last few years' payroll, a lot of Federal employees try to get billeted to expensive locals a couple years before their retirement: if you retire out of a LA/NYC/Chicago/DC billet, your retirement check's fatter than if you retire out of a billet in, say, Nebraska. ...And then you can take that fatter retirement check and relocate to someplace cheap.
Even outside of the Federal government, there've already been remote-oriented IT companies that do locality-based pay-scaling.
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That precedent has been around for ages. I mean, if your familiar with the Federal government, they provide a base-pay and a locality-bump.
Also, because your retirement is based on your last few years' payroll, a lot of Federal employees try to get billeted to expensive locals a couple years before their retirement: if you retire out of a LA/NYC/Chicago/DC billet, your retirement check's fatter than if you retire out of a billet in, say, Nebraska. ...And then you can take that fatter retirement check and relocate to someplace cheap.
Even outside of the Federal government, there've already been remote-oriented IT companies that do locality-based pay-scaling.