>>> If you are so much into having a remote team, then why would you discriminate against location right? Well, minimizing the cost of running business is very

>>> If you are so much into having a remote team, then why would you discriminate against location right? Well, minimizing the cost of running business is very reasonable, as long as it's fair to the employees which is subjective and complicated issue. I think that this is a fairly complicated issue. Some points: * if you pay the SF rate for developers in small towns in Easter Europe or Siberia or India or whatever, where the average salary is less than $750/mo and sometimes much lower, you might have some odd dynamics. Golden handcuffs and all that; * however, it is reasonably often an intentional decision to live in a cheaper place, with less opportunities, etc, so that you can save more money. So not really fair to heavily penalize for that and questionable how much should you penalize; * it's hard to adjust the numbers globally, really. There are some web sites about cost of living, but they ignore loads of details about the local dynamics. Often it's just a crowd sourced average. So paying the SF (or NYC or whatever) rate globally probably wouldn't work, you need some adjustments. The severity of such adjustments is hard to get right.