Mooney: Nextmv pays identical salaries for same role regardless of location
Carolyn Mooney · Decision Automation's Bright Future with Nextmv's Carolyn Mooney · Apr 12, 2022 · at 20:38
Carolyn Mooney is the co-founder and CEO of Nextmv. She explains Nextmv's policy of radical compensation transparency and location-agnostic pay.
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“Everyone that is doing that job That we're paying for the work product, right? And the work product is the same regardless of if you know, live in Kansas City and you come in as a decision engineer one, or you live in Germany and you come in as a decision engineer one. And so we took that tact really early on and just said, you know, we pay the same for the same work product.”
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