> They just don’t pay SV wages.

As a candidate, how do you separate this kind of company from one where the owners are cheap and want to pay you as less as possible?

There are a lot of companies that advertise terrific WLB, pictures of their employees and their families laughing only to find out none of those employees work there any longer and the pictures were taken on their once-every-10-years retreat at a cheap hotel in MO or WY.