My company tends to do something similar for starting salaries, but that's because we're a consultancy, and our rates per-market are different. However: In the

My company tends to do something similar for starting salaries, but that's because we're a consultancy, and our rates per-market are different. However: In the long term if employees stay with the company long term, salaries tend to get bumped up to approximately the same. So you might get started lower, but your yearly pay bump will be higher.