They use a "rent index", "hot market adjustment", and "country factor" to account for that, I think. > Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive

They use a "rent index", "hot market adjustment", and "country factor" to account for that, I think. > Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Moscow are very expensive with not tons of devs, and devs are lower paid. True enough, but rent correlates with tech salary pretty well within the US at least, where I'm guessing most of their employees are.