If it does, good. Those are companies you probably don't want to work for. In California, we also have a minimum pay here for exempt software engineers - it's

If it does, good. Those are companies you probably don't want to work for. In California, we also have a minimum pay here for exempt software engineers - it's $112,065.20, which is higher than the US median salary for software developers. My company applies that same standard nationwide with remote engineers, so kind of the opposite of what you're saying.