[Ccecil]

Which leads to another issue which isn't brought up enough.

What is going to happen to all the remote high paid workers when it becomes the common trend to scale pay to the area?

Currently...you need to make 3x the average pay to be eligible for a house. Anyone who loses their job that has moved to the area is going to find that there is little to no high paying jobs for quite some distance.

It has already happened to more than one person I know locally. Not saying they will have any issue selling their house.

[astrognomy]

Totally legit question. I know for Boise "scale pay for the area" already has a wildly different meaning depending on the employer.

I've had employers who hired in Boise for cheaper talent than in SoCal (50-80% the pay,) I've had others who pay the same as Salt Lake City -- closest metro area with data, and another who took the Seattle office averages -40-75k and called it fair. Tech wages here are extremely variable and have little to do with local cost of living.