I&#x27;ve seen both: the same rate everywhere, and a location-based delta.<p>The latter was driven by a strong belief in many Bay Area startups and companies that remote work doesn&#x27;t work well, and that you get more output per head and more productivity if you sit next to your developers. That&#x27;s what the premium is for in that case, usually with a tech stack that is relatively easy to find people for (e.g. RoR, PHP, Python).<p>The former was driven by rare knowledge with few customers, all of whom have good reasons to be relatively price insensitive to get the job done.<p>Pick your strategy accordingly...