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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I just think it should have a geographic cost of living adjustment. I feel like someone making $11/hour in some areas has a better quality of life than someone making $15 in some urban areas.
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That's a way of doing it, but I could see locality changes becoming hyper-partisan. It's like pay for Federal jobs, there are a bunch of localities and then rest of country. Getting a new locality created is a challenge in itself. Then, because of where Feds are, the localities that have a lot of Feds have artificially low rates compared to what they really likely should be. For example, the locality pay is essentially the same between Detroit and DC, and I can assure you DC is way more expensive to live in than Detroit...
TL;DR it would just open another front in the forever war of partisanship