There are essentially three explanations for your lower pay 1) You're being paid less than your market price 2) Your colleagues are being paid more than their

There are essentially three explanations for your lower pay 1) You're being paid less than your market price 2) Your colleagues are being paid more than their market price 3) Your market price is not the same as theirs. If 1), get a new job. If 2), make peace with it. If 3), start to look at why that might be true. I know that a randomly selected remote engineer in the US is more valuable to me than a remote engineer in Eastern Europe who is more valuable to me than a remote engineer in India, for example. The US-based engineer has working hours closer to mine, has cultural context closer to mine, can more easily communicate with a customer in a live site debugging, and overall builds products with a "product sense" closer to what the US market desires. This is of course not true at the individual case, but is definitely true in the average, and a reason why domestic remote engineers will likely continue to be paid more than overseas remote engineers.