DEV Community

Discussion on: Should remote workers be paid differently based on location?

Collapse
 
jonasbarka profile image
Jonas Barkå

Are Indian developers living in the US paid lower wages? If not, racism is not the issue here.

Thread Thread
 
kriskoeh profile image
kriskoeh

We actually have protections to prevent this in the US. This could absolutely still be rooted in racism.

Thread Thread
 
maxart2501 profile image
Massimo Artizzu

Not only on the US, there are similar laws all over the world. This doesn't prevent a certain amount of disparity anyway, but I have no specific data to support this claim (as much as there's a disparity between men and women, for example).

But still, an Indian developer in San Francisco is paid orders of magnitude more than one in Delhi. I don't think this could be remotely disputed.

What actually abysmal in the US is what's considered "minimum wage" by law, which is way below the poverty limit 😟