the price of an hour

your passport sets the price of your hour.

in a short time i worked with a lot of remote specialists. the pattern was simple: what an hour of their work cost depended on the country on their passport, not on how good they were.

moving doesn’t fix it. a contractor from a cheap country living in scandinavia is still billed as a contractor from a cheap country.

remote work was supposed to make the market global. it made the passport the first line of your rate card.