For consultants willing to serve a given area, nobody cares where they live when deciding whether to agree to their rate. Supply and demand shouldn't work diffe

For consultants willing to serve a given area, nobody cares where they live when deciding whether to agree to their rate. Supply and demand shouldn't work differently from that for remote workers, unlike local workers where a constraint of the job is usually being in a office. (Even then, the residence address is only implicitly relevant through that constraint.) Yes, this does mean that a remote job might pay less than SF, but also that it shouldn't vary based on the exact location. One rate for the entire pool of qualified people willing to work during acceptable hours in locations where the company is willing to comply with the employment laws. That said, if the qualified people tend to live in expensive tech hubs, the rate will end up pretty close to tech hub rates, again due to standard supply and demand.