They don't really have great pay, though, do they? They can't afford to pay what qualified employees demand in California. So they move to a state where the a

They don't really have great pay, though, do they? They can't afford to pay what qualified employees demand in California. So they move to a state where the average expected salary is lower. Oracle's reputation was of abysmal pay for senior employees, for decades. I'm willing to bet that economically they should have moved a long time ago, but Larry Ellison's pride kept them in the Bay Area. He designed the campus buildings to look like database icons, that's not something you give up easily.