There are costs to replacing and ramping up an employee. The company reduces pay for those who move because it assumes they'll accept that reduction based on th

There are costs to replacing and ramping up an employee. The company reduces pay for those who move because it assumes they'll accept that reduction based on the difficulty of finding a better paying job while working out of that new location. It wouldn't even surprise me if the big tech companies actually colluded on these market discounts to keep wages low, given the wage fixing lawsuit a few years ago. If Google, and FB both cut your pay 30% for moving to Tulsa then employers can keep a lot more of their money and their people.