[curun1r]

Not the poster you're replying to, but I manage both remote employees and local devs. We do adjust salaries based on location, but the adjustment data we use seems skewed in favor of remote employees. As an example, an employee in Florida gets $140k which is only $30k less than we'd pay him if he were local.

> But that is still an concern since your salary gets reset if you ever change companies without moving back to silicon valley.

I'm not sure if this is true. If you're going to work for another SV company and remote, it's quite common for you to be able to quote a number higher than you got from your previous remote job and negotiate your way down to at or just above where you actually were in the previous job. The only time where I'd see you needing to adjust your salary down is if you took a job with a non-SV company in the interim. Just be aware that the salary data used by each company may be different.

But it is probably helpful to come to SV/SF at some point in the beginning and transition to remote work initially because hiring out here is somewhat incestuous and having a well-known SV employer on your CV will help with getting past HR filters and ensure you get the necessary LI touches.