Hah, my first job out of uni had this problem. We were the UK office of a medium-sized Seattle-headquartered tech company. One of our department heads got a jo

Hah, my first job out of uni had this problem. We were the UK office of a medium-sized Seattle-headquartered tech company. One of our department heads got a job at a fintech not long after I left, and gradually poached the rest of his team. Despite the salary raise being like 70%, the company refused to benchmark against them, because the were Central London, and we were Outer London. I ended up jumping ship a couple of years later to that fintech, that 70% raise was lovely.