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I totally respect your reply. It made me think about compensation within my own company, which varies widely by geographical location and is a relative factor in this conversation.

Where I work a Software Engineer in Seattle earns more than an Engineer in Atlanta ,New Jersey, or Dallas, but might earn less than and Engineer in San Francisco. They might all do the exact same job, but these differences of pay are by-design to match local cost of living standards & consequently the pay scales are loosely based upon cost of living norms in each area. Adjusting normalized pay to match the costs of living differences in that area is basic economics, and in some ways you can say from this perspective Seattle got it right.



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