Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did
Well done. Personally, as a remote developer, I always make a point of billing at my "Bay Area Rate", even though I've never lived there.There was a point, early in my guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop era where I would cut my bill rate in half while working from the beach with a laptop. Clients were happy about that, and it more than paid for beers and thatch huts. Then one time I tried not cutting my bill rate in half on a proposal. Nobody but me seemed to notice. So now I don't do that anymore.As the article so nicely points put, the work you're doing is exactly the same regardless of where you do it from. Charge accordingly.It's true that living costs are less in other places. It makes a lot more sense for that difference to be captured by me rather than somebody else's company.Glad to see these guys stepping up and setting an example from the employer side.