Hi. I'm from Europe and recently got a remote job offer for a US based startup. The offer is good and I was ready to sign it.
But looking at the exchange rates it seems I would be losing like 3% every month. That's really quite a lot and I have second thoughts. It doesn't seem like the wisest idea to go for it, even though I believe in the company and the team is great.
No idea what to do. I'm making the same money at the moment, but don't really enjoy the work, the team, there's no vacation nor equity. I'd love to take the new one but this is something I did not consider properly.
Is there someone in the similar situation - being paid in US dollars? How do you adjust for that?
Would it be too ridiculous to ask to be paid in euros? Sounds like I'd want to have my cake and eat it too.
Thanks for any advice or insights.
p.s. not sure if Ask HN is meant to be used for questions like this, apologies if not.
You should be a lot more concerned about the crazy price frenzy going on with asset prices: stock market doubled in a year, real estate prices break new highs every month, even food prices are all time high apparently. You've lost way more than 3% of your purchasing power there already.