> If a company knows how to get choose a USD200k engineer in SF and get a good return for the company off that engineer, then why wouldn't you pay USD200k in al

> If a company knows how to get choose a USD200k engineer in SF and get a good return for the company off that engineer, then why wouldn't you pay USD200k in all areas? If they can get those other people to join paying 100k, why wouldn't they want to save 100k per engineer? Companies pay you what they need to in order to get you to join and unfortunately, market rates are still largely decided by location.