No commute. Lunchtime naps in your own bed. As if the working-from-home deal needed sweetening, new salary data from a study of freshly posted job ads found that remote workers in San Diego also often outearn their on-site peers.What’s more: San Diego remote workers get an even bigger boost over on-site workers than other remote workers across the U.S. This story is for subscribers We offer subscribers exclusive access to our best journalism.Thank you for your support. Nationwide remote advertised salaries are around $8,500 higher than on-site salaries, for the same job. In San Diego, that difference is $10,852. The study, conducted by Ringover, a cloud-based telecom provider, looked at advertised salaries on LinkedIn in June, for 30 types of jobs in 30 U.S. cities. A bigger boost for remote work is one key way San Diego’s salaries stood out, compared to the national trend. There’s one more way San Diego bucked trends: In most cases, hybrid workers — who work at home and on-site each week — earn close to what remote workers do. But in San Diego, they earn significantly less than both remote and on-site workers.San Diego recruiter insight
Julie Brown, the president of SDI Staffing, a San Diego recruiting firm that specializes in insurance and financial services, said she’s not seeing companies offering more for remote positions.“Our clients pay the same regardless if in-person or remotely,” she wrote in an email interview. “We have seen clients willing to pay more to get staff to come into the office in some areas.”But, Brown added, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in salaries for remote jobs, as employers competed for talent that was not necessarily local. “What we did see when the pandemic started as that smaller agencies in the Inland Empire area/Temecula area who had traditionally been able to pay less to an experienced candidate who did not want to commute into San Diego, were now seeing competition from larger agencies in San Diego who offered remote. We saw a number of candidates leave their job for the remote role and get a significant increase in pay,” she said.A study from the Society for Human Resource Management that looked at trends from 2021 and 2022 found that remote workers may earn less than on-site, as employers boosted pay to entice people back to the office. Remote, hybrid and on-site pay
Here’s how average advertised pay breaks down by job format, according to Ringover’s research:San DiegoRemote average salary: $103,450Hybrid average salary: $89,779Office average salary: $92,598NationwideRemote average salary: $95,158Hybrid average salary: $95,018Office average salary: $86,305The study only looked at jobs that can be done in any format — remote, office or hybrid. These stats are from job ads, so the actual negotiated pay may be different. “The 30 popular jobs were chosen based on online rankings from Zip Recruiter, Zippia, and FlexJobs. These were ‘remote-capable’ jobs that could be performed both in an office and in a remote setting to be able to compare salaries for the same role directly,” the report says.10 San Diego jobs where remote work pays more
The San Diego positions with the biggest remote premium tended to be in management, marketing, design and a few analyst roles, Ringover’s analysis found. The biggest spread between remote and on-site: marketing manager, where remote jobs pay $80,803 more than on-site. Here are a few other jobs where remote work pays more:Marketing managerRemote: $193,333In office: $112,531Difference: $80,802Insurance underwriterRemote: $102,500In office: $68,669Difference: $33,831UX designerRemote: $111,580In office: $80,458Difference: $31,122Account managerRemote: $105,000In office: $76,271Difference: $28,729Customer service managerRemote: $91,679In office: $69,170Difference: $22,509Other examples: office manager, operations analyst, data analyst, content marketer and telehealth nurse.While hybrid jobs in San Diego advertised lower salaries compared to on-site, there were exceptions, Ringover found. Hybrid IT support technicians can earn around $33,000 more in hybrid positions than both on-site and remote. So can copywriters — where advertised pay is around $82,000 for hybrid roles, and between $60,000 and $70,000 for on-site or remote. Only five jobs paid more for on-site or office work: case managers, social media managers, sales assistants, project managers and financial advisers.Since June, when Ringover collected this salary data, the job market has slowed slightly, with the economy adding 209,000 jobs, which is almost 100,000 fewer than in May. If the labor market further slackens, that could impact whether remote or on-site jobs get more applicants — and more compensation.
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These San Diego remote jobs pay a lot more than office or hybrid, study shows
