But the location isn&#x27;t irrelevant and that&#x27;s the entire point that this article blindly misses. The company may not care that their developer is living in Silicon Valley, but there are a lot of companies that do care and will pay high salaries for him&#x2F;her. Either the company competes and offers a high salary as well, or it just doesn&#x27;t get to hire developers from Silicon Valley. It&#x27;s basic supply and demand.<p>If you&#x27;re buying a car and it comes with a high power engine that you don&#x27;t care about, you still have to pay the premium for the engine. You can&#x27;t pay less because you tell the seller that you won&#x27;t utilize the extra power. The car has a higher market price because there are people that will pay extra for the high power engine.