If you're worried about not getting the job, just ask for your local worth. If you don't get that remote job, then no big deal, as you can soon just get a local

If you're worried about not getting the job, just ask for your local worth. If you don't get that remote job, then no big deal, as you can soon just get a local job that pays that. If you can't, then in means that you're either in a small niche and may wait longer for the right opportunity (I'm in such position, it makes things trickier), or your sense of how much you can get paid is probably too high anyway.