> This is just the reality of remote work which people are ignoring. Facebook (or any other company) has zero reason to pay Bay Area salaries if they can hire

> This is just the reality of remote work which people are ignoring. Facebook (or any other company) has zero reason to pay Bay Area salaries if they can hire anywhere. Are they paying "Bay Area" salaries, or "Skills With The Most Obvious Correlating Signal Of Living In The Bay Area" salaries? > Salaries WILL be the same everywhere in the world. Does a Mercedes and a Honda Civic cost the same? No? Well why not? They're both cars. They're paying for the skillsets, and for salaries to be the "same everywhere in the world", the skillsets would have to be the same, and we're not at the point where they've been commoditized to that level(which is a different discussion versus geography anyways).