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alexey-salmin 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Mistral raises €3B

> quite a lot of folks are happy having a top 5% salary in their own county, without all the stresses and risks of working in the US.

Yes, absolutely, the problem is these are not the people you want to hire.

And the people you do want to hire are either already in US or work for a US company remotely for 3x the salary.

dismalaf 14 days ago [–]

US companies almost always adjust salaries for LCOL. The days of them paying 3x local salaries are long past...

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