I was in this boat a little bit, working remotely for someone in an expensive city. Initially I was paid a little bit less, and probably still am, but not that

I was in this boat a little bit, working remotely for someone in an expensive city. Initially I was paid a little bit less, and probably still am, but not that much. But anyway, at one point my counter argument was: location is not the only factor. If you're not going to compensate people based solely on their performance, then you also need to include other factors, not only their location because it's not the only expense in life. One can have rich parents, and the other parents that need support, etc. One can be a single person, the other can have six kids. You can go on and on. If you go that road it will be hard to figure out any compensation because there are too many individual factors. One other thing is: a company operating in an expensive market will itself be expensive. When they start paying the workers less, I doubt they will become less expensive. Basically somebody will just pocket this difference, most likely few at the expense of many.