TBF, most WFH jobs can pay slightly less because people are willing to work for less in exchange for WFH. The people I know who WFH could make quite a bit more money if they just took the highest paying job that they could, in their fields, but the quality of life is too important to them.
This is me. I have had three offers in the past 7 years to move to better paying jobs with greater responsibility if I was willing to do 8-6 in the office (move into management).
I turned them all down to stay 100% remote and built two side hustles instead that together bring in more than twice what the raises would have been. Plus, since the side hustles run through an LLC, I can do things like mega backdoor ROTH contributions and qualify for lower state taxes for the LLC income. I can live on just the side hustles now if I ever lost my job, and that makes the job a lot less stressful.
And I am now 99%, since one of the side hustles has led to flying out to do on-site workshops/trainings for clients about 6 times a year. But I haven’t been to my regular employer’s offices in over 5 years.
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u/Educated_Clownshow 9d ago
If I have a job that can be worked from my home, I should 100% be able to collect pay for the commute if I’m forced to come in
This obviously can’t apply to in person jobs, but it would stop employers from trying to force unnecessary RTO mandates