[jrlocke]

Location is simply a convenient cudgel. It would be just as defensible to trot out family size based pay (greater pay for more mouths) or net worth based pay (greater pay for lesser existing privilege) or the like.

Location just gets those in power what they want: higher personal comp and lower employee salaries.

[carapace]

I agree.

This is the same industry that formed a "wage-fixing cartel" against their own developers and engineers.

I'm sure that they will do anything they think they can get away with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

> The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place of business in the San Francisco–Silicon Valley area of California.

Pando had a story about the scope of the fraud:

> "Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees"

> Confidential internal Google and Apple memos, buried within piles of court dockets and reviewed by PandoDaily, clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt to illegally fix the labor market for hi-tech workers, expanded within a few years to include companies ranging from Dell, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, to Comcast, Clear Channel, Dreamworks, and London-based public relations behemoth WPP. All told, the combined workforces of the companies involved totals well over a million employees.

https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

There's a lot more coverage: https://pando.com/tag/techtopus/