To those noting this is salary only: that's a completely fair criticism. For many tech employees this is less than half of their total comp. The article explic

To those noting this is salary only: that's a completely fair criticism. For many tech employees this is less than half of their total comp. The article explicitly mentions the push for remote work. The one thing I'll add is that it tends to be engineers and/or more senior employees who go remote and these I bet will tend to be above median salaries. Lastly, to those saying a 0.3% drop is noise, I'll point out that this happened while other areas grew 6%. That seems a little more significant.