I work remotely from outside Boston, a friend at work is remote from Argentina (I find the parallel to the article interesting). I make more than he does by a significant amount (very roughly similar to the salaries in the article).<p>I actually don&#x27;t know what would happen if I moved to Argentina.  I presume my salary would get dropped.  Maybe not.. depends on if I can convince someone else to give me an offer at my previous salary for remote work... but then what of my Argentinian friend?<p>I think all developers <i>should</i> get offered the same amount independent of location. As remote work takes off (and I think it will...), this will become the norm. Why?  Because of how market works.  If Google will pay me 170k to work from my house, then smaller companies need to start competing with that.<p>Ironically, the big companies are still way behind on this. I work at Canonical... our devs are all fully remote. I have people from nearly every continent working on my project.  There&#x27;s very very little friction to remote teams, except sometimes you need to talk to someone who&#x27;s asleep.  But that honestly is not usually that bad.  You keep close teams in similar time zones and everything just works out.  We use hangouts and irc and email... hell, the disincentive to have useless meetings probably saves us more time than we spend working around the relatively small problems remote work introduces.<p>(also, I&#x27;m kinda glad to get away from whiteboarding crap... a whiteboard is not a good tool for pretty much anything in development... a shared text window is almost always superior)