Zapier has always been a 100% remote team. We think you can work for a great company and live wherever you want. But for those of you in the Bay Area, it might not be as easy to make the swap to remote. So today we're launching an experiment to help—a de-location package. But first some backstory on why. 
 
 Five years ago, I moved away from friends and family in central Missouri to the Bay Area. Part of the allure was and is its thriving tech scene. Like any new place, the Bay Area is fantastic to be in for the first time. If you work in tech in a small town, coming to the Bay Area is like coming to the big leagues. You actually encounter people who understand what you do on a day-to-day basis. Not to mention the fantastic weather, the adjacent beaches, wine country, ski country, and more that the area has to offer—it truly makes the Bay Area one-of-a-kind. 
 
 Some of us fall in love with the area and are financially able to make this home. But for the rest of us, it can be a real challenge to turn the Bay Area into a life-long home rather than a short stop somewhere in our twenties and thirties. The housing crunch and high cost of living simply price out many families and, despite loving the area, the realities are many of us need to look elsewhere to create the life we want for our families. 
 
 When we reach this crossroad, many of us feel we have to make a career sacrifice. You have to go from the land of opportunity for your tech career to a city with a more limited set of options for your own personal growth. 
 
 At Zapier we don't think you should have to make that tradeoff. We've long embraced remote working. And think you should be able to work wherever you want and still work at a place that helps you achieve your career goals. 
 
 So if you're living in the Bay Area but thinking about making a change that will improve your family's standard of living, we're eager to help. Zapier will provide up to $10,000 to help relocate you and your family to your new home outside the Bay Area. 
 
 If you've been thinking about making a move, apply to any of the open roles. We'll go through the hiring process together and if it seems like you like Zapier and you've demonstrated the necessary skills for us to make an offer, we'll help set you up with the relocation package as part of it. 
 
 The recruiting industry has long offered relocation assistance to convince you to move somewhere you may not prefer. We think it's time you get assistance to take a new role you'll love and move to the exact place you want to be. 
 
 Some fine print: The $10,000 will be a reimbursement for moving expenses you incur in the first three months while working at Zapier. We also ask you stick around Zapier for at least a year. We want to make a commitment to you, so we think it's fair you do the same. Right now we're limiting to this to folks wanting to make the move away from the Bay Area. We know other cities are expensive to live in too, but this is an experiment for us so we want to see how it goes before expanding the program. 
 
 
 
 Photo Credit: Louis Raphael 
 
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 Zapier is offering new employees $10,000 when they accept a job and move away from the Bay Area. 
 
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 Silicon Valley is the global capital of the technology industry, but one tech company is offering to pay employees $10,000 to leave the Bay Area. 
 
 Zapier CEO Wade Foster says the offer is part of an experimental de-location package for the company. 
 
 Foster moved from Missouri to the Bay Area five years ago and acknowledges the many benefits to living here, like being in the heart of the tech scene. "Not to mention the fantastic weather, the adjacent beaches, wine country, ski country, and more that the area has to offer—it truly makes the Bay Area one-of-a-kind," Foster writes in a blog post. 
 
 However, all those perks come with a price and Bay Area cities have become some of the most expensive places to live in the country. Foster thinks many people would like to leave the area in search of a better quality of life, but don't want to sacrifice potential career opportunities. 
 
 "I know there are quite a few people in the Bay Area who are new parents looking to find a better standard of living," the CEO told SFGATE. "It's difficult for a family of four to afford rent, a mortgage, or child care here in the Bay Area. Even if you are a two-income family this can still be difficult." 
 
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 To combat the problem, Zapier, a workflow automation startup that helps users to connect apps, is offering $10,000 to Bay Area residents who accept a position with the company and agree to move away. All of the company's employees work remotely. 
 
 "Since we don't care where people work from, we thought we'd help with a relocation package to help our new teammates find a place they'd love to live," Foster told us. 
 
 There is some fine print involved: The $10,000 can only go toward reimbursing moving expenses for the first three months the employee is working at the company. The tech company is also asking for a one-year commitment, to avoid people taking advantage of the offer. 
 
 This isn't the first time companies have tried to attract Silicon Valley talent with enticing moving benefits. In 2016, a New Zealand town offered packages of land and homes for $165,000 to anyone willing to live and work there. 
 
 Though the de-location package was only announced a few days ago, the company is already seeing a lot of interest in the deal. 
 
 "Over the weekend we've seen quite a few people apply for our open positions citing interest due to the de-location package," Foster told SFGATE in an interview. 
 
 If all goes well, Foster says his company may expand the offer to employees looking to relocate from other expensive cities. 
 
 As for Foster and his own family, he says they don't want to leave the Bay Area, but fear they may have to one day. 
 
 "My wife and I genuinely do love it here. We've made friendships that will last us through our lifetime," Foster told SFGATE. "My wife and I are seriously considering moving though because there are benefits of being in a lower cost of living area and being closer to family." ||||| A tech company is hiring and offering new employees a lot of cash to leave the Bay Area.Mountain View based Zapier says it's trying something new. How does $10,000 sound? CEO Wade Foster says it's part of its de-location package. Targeting people who are looking for a more affordable place to leave, but don't want to sacrifice potential career opportunities.Zapier integrates apps to make your workflow smoother and share data. You'll have to work for the company for at least a year to qualify for the $10,000 offer.
– Tech company Zapier says San Francisco is a fantastic city—and it would like to encourage its employees to move far away from it. In a blog post, CEO Wade Foster offers a $10,000 "de-location" package to new recruits who are struggling with the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has some of the country's highest rents, but are worried about moving away because they don't want to give up tech career opportunities, ABC7 reports. All of the workplace automation company's employees work remotely, and the firm thinks "you should be able to work wherever you want and still work at a place that helps you achieve your career goals," Foster writes in the blog post. "I know there are quite a few people in the Bay Area who are new parents looking to find a better standard of living," Foster tells the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's difficult for a family of four to afford rent, a mortgage, or child care here in the Bay Area. Even if you are a two-income family this can still be difficult." The $10,000 will be used to reimburse moving expenses in the first three months, according to the fine print, and those who take Zapier up on the offer have to agree to work for the company for at least a year. Foster, who moved to the Bay Area from Missouri five years ago, says he still loves the area but is considering moving away with his wife "because there are benefits of being in a lower cost of living area and being closer to family." (Speaking of expensive things...)