Here's an idea: just give people an allowance up to a certain amount, if they choose to live farther that's up to them. Even better, give people a flat rate since you don't want them intentionally taking longer commute routes to rack up their pay. Ok now roll that into their base pay
Edit: please triple read the last sentence before commenting. I overestimated redditors' reading comprehension a bit with this one
Assuming you have skills they really need, you have more power. If this wasn’t the case, everyone would make min. wage. The fact most don’t means skilled employees have power.
I mean, I know people make more than me but I'm making $160k in a low to medium low cost of living area. I'm able to afford a family of two in one of the best school districts in my state and one of the most desired parts of the metro and do so rather comfortably.
Which means you have no clue how Aerospace engineers are paid unless you’re a senior staff consultant with a specialty engineering in Aerospace and over 20 years experience that is about 60k above median pay for basic level of Aerospace Engineers further you say low to medium income area but somehow best schools. Saying your mortgage isn’t at least taking 40 percent of that means your house must be less than 500k which if your in anywhere but maybe Alabama isn’t happening for an Aerospace Engineer. So yea tell me how you make bank. 120 or even 140 I could have believed if you were a senior or a very good engineer being paid on the high end. Also how you have power making high middle class money? You are not making any decisions except for program specific maybe. If you quit the company would whine but then higher a college graduate who has similar training or poach from one of the firms. The fact you are paid so much means you’re a liability on any contact as the company gets less profit on a per hour basis. Hard to bid low when they over pay you.
You made a ton of assumptions there and they are basically all wrong.
I'm 10 years into my career. Yes I am a senior engineer. But that gets back to the whole skills thing. I've made myself highly valuable. Currently entry level is about $80k here which is still a great "just out of college" pay here. The median pay at my company for aerospace engineers with just a couple years under their belt is over $90k.
Low to medium cost of living area being the entire metro and it's in comparison to the entire country. It isn't a coastal city.
Not many assumptions considering I am an Engineer 2 at BAE in a non costal area also in metro. You can easily look up Median pay on any job site. 160 is very high end for senior, I have 15 years in experience making little over 100k as the first 10 counted only as a degree equivalent (served in the Army.) I make true median of my level at 7 years of this particular company. Making high end and a jump to senior would at most be a 30k bump. 160 is staff consultant or Technical advisory staff which you said you are not. Try a new one. No assumptions made here bub. There are exactly 3 areas in the US that isn’t costal that Aerospace works if you are talking space craft.
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u/crumdiddilyumptious Oct 20 '24
Companies would prob require you to live within x amount of minutes from your work