anecdotally I've heard some companies are doing a "meet in the middle" sort of scenario that means the employee still is incentivized to move away. Eg: moving

anecdotally I've heard some companies are doing a "meet in the middle" sort of scenario that means the employee still is incentivized to move away. Eg: moving to 10% lower CoL? then it will only be a 5% pay cut, or something along those lines. Your point of "same output, why not same return?" makes sense, but this way employees are incentivized