> I agree with the sibling comment about how it's ridiculous to consider "market rate" to just be the very high salaries offered at the handful of large tech co

> I agree with the sibling comment about how it's ridiculous to consider "market rate" to just be the very high salaries offered at the handful of large tech companies. (Tech companies, who btw have the capacity to establish satellite offices at secondary hubs, and also sometimes do already.) With absolutely no offense intended, I've never been offered one of those FAANG-grade packages, so if you were, hypothetically, to try to hire me away from a present position, I would have to insist: fuck you, pay me, I won't leave things I already like to get the same middling compensation.