> Only for as long as it takes you to build your personal network and resume so that you can demand the same pay elsewhere. Anchor your salary as high as possible as quickly as possible to establish what you're worth and then move.

How would I justify a Bay area salary to Dutch companies?

Also, visa sponsoring is hard. Triplebyte and the like never considered me.

> Bay area tech beaucoup bucks in flyover country is a recipe for early retirement.

Does anyone get paid bay area rates in other areas? I have never heard of this. I work remotely for a bay area company and get paid based on local rates.

Seriously. Good luck arguing for 400k total comp in Kansas or wherever when there are local engineers perhaps even senior to you who’ve been happily working for upper 5 figures all their career.