The author is failing to understand basic supply and demand. Just because the company doesn&#x27;t care that the developer is in Silicon Valley doesn&#x27;t mean there aren&#x27;t a ton of companies that do care and will pay a large salary for it. Either you compete with those companies and offer a high salary, or you will just exclude yourself from higher silicon valley developers.<p>Just because you don&#x27;t value location doesn&#x27;t make the location premium any less real. The simple fact is that there is a lot more demand for developers in the bay than there is in South America.<p>A company could certainly overpay the devs outside of SV so the numbers look the same, but it&#x27;s fiscally irresponsible.