[valkmit]

When you are negotiating payment for any good and service, you care only what the end cost is to you.

It doesn't matter how you decide to slice it - "this share you pay, this share I pay" at the end of the day it will be seen through the lens of Total Cost of Ownership.

[gambiting]

I like how you didn't answer my question. If you don't see it as a paycut then it's not part of your salary.

>>you care only what the end cost is to you.

Yes, so I care what my salary is. What the employer has to legally pay to employ me is literally irrelevant other than academically. It's not my salary, the same how their cost of maintaining an office or providing me with equipment to do my job isn't my salary.