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> It started to increasingly seem like an arbitrary choice, and if we were going to make one such, why not go for the best and the top?

So you picked San Francisco? Not London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, etc? Why not pay everybody as if they live in Manhattan?

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As someone who worked in Manhattan and San Francisco and currently lives in Japan, San Francisco wages for tech workers are definitely the highest and most competitive that I've seen. You can argue that the cost of living offsets the higher wages, but that's not what Basecamp or its employees need to deal with.

SF pay rates are usually cited as the highest in the world. It’s shorthand for “we aren’t going to use locality as a way of getting outbid”

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