Even if, why not just legally live of your uncle who has an apartment in San Francisco, while you defacto live in South Alabama.
With remote jobs I don't understand why someone living in a cheaper City should get less.
With remote jobs I don't understand why someone living in a cheaper City should get less.
It's just supply and demand. Give 50k in a poor country, and (assuming there are enough qualified people), you will have quite a lot of choice. Give 50k in SF and people will be laughing at you. Why give 200k in the first instance when there's enough supply with 50k?
You're not getting less, the world doesn't have a global currency with fixed price. It's all about earning power. If a company has an office in Alabama, and another office in San Francisco and another in Accra, Ghana. Employees won't expect to be paid the same, so why should they expect the same because they are remote?