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With jobs, maybe. With careers, especially in STEM, you get lots of exceptions like extremely rewarding but low paying positions in academia, and tech companies that think they can just spend money instead of effort to fix their culture and broken hiring process.
I can relate to that last bit. There’s a reason for the phrase “golden handcuffs”.
I think I get the sentiment that OP is trying to make though, a lower pay isn’t likely to correlate with a better culture, it’s probably likely it is the inverse.
With jobs, maybe. With careers, especially in STEM, you get lots of exceptions like extremely rewarding but low paying positions in academia, and tech companies that think they can just spend money instead of effort to fix their culture and broken hiring process.
I can relate to that last bit. There’s a reason for the phrase “golden handcuffs”.
I think I get the sentiment that OP is trying to make though, a lower pay isn’t likely to correlate with a better culture, it’s probably likely it is the inverse.