[UncleMeat]

I think that most of the complaining about location based pay at Google has been dumb, but this one is actually people getting screwed.

Folks were initially told one number and then it was adjusted to a much lower number. They were the only group in the US that had their equity refreshes adjusted down. And people working at the actual research triangle site are paid a lower rate than people working remotely in the rest of NC, which has a lower cost of living than Raleigh-Durham. The people at the Raleigh-Durham office are the lowest paid engineers at any location in the US right now. Lower than "middle of nowhere Montana."