This is the point I was working on. I also have no confident answer to this problem, but have a gut feel it is somewhere in between the extremes. There is also the point that most people have some choice in where they live, though I do not have any useful suggestion of how that should be factored into the calculation. San Francisco does seem to be a rather expensively arbitrary choice of address, which may be influencing the way the foundation operates. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Garry (Deskana) Sent: 12 September 2020 18:38 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 12:39, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Shouldn't two candidates for the same position for the same company get > roughly the same salary, regardless of where they live? > I don't know. Maybe. Within the US, there are markets where decent, experienced software engineers earn half of what a software engineer in San Francisco would earn, and they would also probably have a comparable quality of life. Outside the US, there are markets out there where the going rate for decent, experienced software engineers is 15 times less than the going rate for a software engineer in San Francisco. Due to the relative decrease in purchasing power, the salary that's 15 times lower gives these people a good quality of life comparable to (or possibly even better than) life in San Francisco. Is it exploiting them to pay them 15 times less given that their quality of life is the same, or even higher, than people in San Francisco? Would it be fair to people in San Francisco, or other locations, to do this? Should the Wikimedia Foundation pay people in this market 15 times more than they would earn at another company? As Gergő said, would that be a responsible use of donor funds? I don't have the answer to these questions. They are very hard questions where there is no obviously correct answer. Dan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
