This. You can't define a market rate as being lower then a bunch of other employers are willing to pay. Your market rate is what people will pay you. I see this

This. You can't define a market rate as being lower then a bunch of other employers are willing to pay. Your market rate is what people will pay you. I see this all the time with saying FANG pays above market rate. Now if we're saying "average" market rate, sure there is an average market rate for a larger group of developers that they pay above, but then you need to do a good job of talking about what other companies are paying relative to average or median, not just say one is above market rate because it is above what many smaller companies will pay