At Filmhub, we use location-based pay to ensure fairness, competitiveness, and alignment with our values. Here’s why this approach works for us:

• Rather than cost of living alone, we base pay on the cost of labor specific to each region, ensuring competitiveness in the local talent market.
• We want to ensure that everyone enjoys the same standard of living, no matter where they’re based. Localized market data factors in local living costs, job market conditions, and regulations, ensuring our pay is both competitive and fair, allowing all our team members an equivalent quality of life.

How we determine “Location Factors” for salaries in different geographic regions:

• By using its extensive database of employee compensation data, Carta creates “Location Factors” for different markets.
• We apply these Location Factors to our San Francisco based benchmarks.
• Location data is updated twice a year on the same schedule as our salary ranges.

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Relocation

Our compensation philosophy is grounded on a location-based approach to pay. We have team members living all over the world, in places where the cost of living varies.

That means if you relocate somewhere with a higher cost of living, we may make reasonable adjustments. However, if you relocate somewhere with a lower cost of living, we will also review and adjust appropriately to ensure fairness across the team.

If you are considering relocating, we strongly recommend you speak to us first to understand what this might involve in practice.

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Current Locations with Filmhub Team Members and the “Location Factor” used to determine salaries for each location.

https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUcSQd_FsSMh5nRYJIuBxzpwiWc61eR_pVO4KMqajnBUrTD5QYqRueIg5FHY-LRDdTv9kM3IG1fJFYMAsB5oOCFEH8etCI5ufr8arpJxCJ03e7wjUmeW4apttmun3CJRRv_H51au=s2048?key=xGVxhBRBFJhOzfD8FEv_4Wy1

Location Based Pay Example

Step 1: We review Carta for Pay adjustment percentage vs our benchmark (San Francisco based). In this example, we are looking at Marketing jobs for Austin, TX, which Carta shows has a 89% pay adjustment to San Francisco.

https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUd6tMJhcSS-JAYLEQpnrGAdHRw1S6onHzjnUtS0fhxMnyoMG22icR15JgMLgDmd9qeaT6HPV11MIYQ3e3p1QrzsesPiB7-YMbsJ_YAfAZH7IDnmoRrqxfK2_JlJaEtzGHxQlT9j=s2048?key=xGVxhBRBFJhOzfD8FEv_4Wy1

Step 2: Apply the Austin pay adjustment percentage to the salary bands we use for San Francisco:

San Francisco:

https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUcJMuVzd3L1zjl9Lbp4sLb4Kb3ExCsgf5i6UGpY_SWUiMNo-F53rzBc9LOd0mekHOx1mp-EUO7dmk5N9PsR4JzXrOJ4a4sN5TV5IGlyx53SsXMWdd814WdItQpXjgyWjHnChhS3=s2048?key=xGVxhBRBFJhOzfD8FEv_4Wy1

Austin, TX:

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