Generally a firm can get workers if they are willing to locate in an area that the workers want to live, that they treat the workers well, and that they offer a

Generally a firm can get workers if they are willing to locate in an area that the workers want to live, that they treat the workers well, and that they offer above market rates in salary. But, even wealthy firms such as Apple and Google which both have huge profits have conspired to keep engineering and technical wage rates low. There was recently a settlement for the collusion. It had nothing to do with the amount of money the firms had or could spend for talent, just that they wanted to keep the costs down. So, generally be suspect of these kinds of articles.