> FAANG doesn't determine salaries based on cost of living, but cost of labor, which maps to your concept of "competition density". Yep, that's exactly what a

> FAANG doesn't determine salaries based on cost of living, but cost of labor, which maps to your concept of "competition density". Yep, that's exactly what a Google recruiter told me - they try to pay at the upper end of the _local_ market.