While I understand the feeling, I would be pressed to say that this is purely driven by market dynamics. Companies that hire in a certain market have no incentive to overpay compared to the local market rates.
Software engineering has now become commoditised. This holds true for remote companies. Wages are a function of local supply/demand and labour costs in that location.
If you want to follow the same logic, you would expect to pay a coffee $10 in Brazil as you would pay in NYC. Following the same logic a coffee shop in Rio de Janeiro would say “location based pricing is discriminatory”.
While I understand the feeling, I would be pressed to say that this is purely driven by market dynamics. Companies that hire in a certain market have no incentive to overpay compared to the local market rates.
Software engineering has now become commoditised. This holds true for remote companies. Wages are a function of local supply/demand and labour costs in that location.
If you want to follow the same logic, you would expect to pay a coffee $10 in Brazil as you would pay in NYC. Following the same logic a coffee shop in Rio de Janeiro would say “location based pricing is discriminatory”.
Markets don’t work that way