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Discussion on: Facebook and more big tech companies are going to lean into distributed work. What is going to suck about this?

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Thomas H Jones II

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.