> With the CoL in most SWE-heavy metros

They’re a remote company. They’re not targeting HCOL metros.

> and inflation has savaged a notional 200k.

> "200k is plenty to live on" is rich, well-connected guy talk in 2025.

Claiming that $200k is not enough to live on is rich-guy talk. The majority of the country lives on well below $200K.

I agree that a single person living in a HCOL metro like SF Bay Area would not find this compensation attractive, but that person also has nearly infinite other jobs to choose from nearby.

Jobs like this (remote work for interesting startup) do not need to pay HCOL comp.

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benreesman 3 days ago | parent [-]

Nothing about a remote gig in one job affects the imperstives I highlighted about past layoffs or future uncertainty: pricing relocation into or out of e.g. SFBA at zero is another conversational gambit popular with the out-of-touch. You don't teleport.

It's bad generally, this is a terrible time to be a working person in general. How SWEs stack up against profession X? Depends on profession X.

SWEs are in a job market where a bunch of folks who have been repeatedly prosecuted for wage fixing (most successfully/recently in 2012) are taking another swing at it in a much more lawless regime. That's as precarious as it gets when this cabal monopolizes the front row at the Inaugeration.

	▲	Aurornis 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> pricing relocation into or out of e.g. SFBA at zero is another conversational gambit popular with the out-of-touch. You don't teleport. I think this is missing the point. The target audience for remote jobs that pay $200K does not overlap with the target audience of people interested in working in SFBA at FAANG-level compensation. If someone is interested in relocating to SFBA, they should do that and get a job there.