[incision]

I know three people who work 100% remote, full-time for rates equivalent to 130-185k+ per year.

Interestingly, I'd always thought of remote workers as either high-end technical specialists working as-needed or cheap bodies being delegated to.

These folks all fall somewhere in the middle with the common factor being soft / niche skills - they work for sort of places that most people would run away from and work on things the most people haven't touched in years.

Two of them started out on-site, but were so valuable the company was happy to allow remote work in order to keep them on staff.

[JoeAltmaier]

I've been that guy, several times in my career. Moved back to the Midwest, my Silicon Valley employer continued to pay me. Subsequently got other jobs working at startups and working from the Midwest (3 of them at least). Working one now.