However employers decide to compensate employees in our post-Covid future, it doesn't matter because they must still participate in the market. If an employer'

However employers decide to compensate employees in our post-Covid future, it doesn't matter because they must still participate in the market. If an employer's particular remote-salary algorithm spits out a number that is less then what equally-qualified employees can get elsewhere, they will go elsewhere. If not, they won't. The end effect is that any employer participating in a market will must pay what that market is demanding, regardless of what the algorithm says.