[robertlagrant]

This just means (at least) one of three things:

- you're making this up, and have no conception of what you'd do

- you won't be able to hire people from places where the cost of living is high, as your global rate will be lower than competitive salaries there

- you won't survive, as your competitors who do location-based salaries will be able to offer your customers more value for the same price, or same value for less price

You pick :)

[ghaff]

Even across the US, it's hard. Basecamp is an outlier.

Now, in practice, a fair number of companies probably don't have large systematic salary adjustments by US location, including remote generally. But they mostly do it by just not paying market rates in the highest paying markets like the Bay Area and, especially, not going toe-to-toe with the likes of Google and Facebook.