Organising #BeyondtheRules at Dark Matter Labs 1/4

Following the learning from Reimagining Pay, we recently discussed an alternative structure for pay, which tries to find the unique sweet spot for pay for each individual that is regenerative for both the system and for the self.

*Years experience includes all experience as an adult (from age 18), inc. work, education, unpaid work (care, volunteering, etc).

DM shares a pay formula that accounts for Years experience* + x (+15% for freelancers) x 1000 = gross pro rata pay

How we organise pay and how we contract with our team is a critical part of how we build a distributed international ecosystem. We have intentionally designed our pay and contracting systems to date in a way that is set up to avoid pay functioning as an incentive or a reward for work done or for rank, and instead tries to build it as a liberating s... See more