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> different city but that still doesn't explain the salary difference

You mention city a lot.

But were all those cases within the same company?

This is much more important variable than the city.

When I say city, it means one of the few cities which have like a hundred software houses (big and small) while my city has only 5 opened within last two years (didn't have a single one when I graduated). I applied to in those cities. I understand they wouldn't pay more to a resource that had to relocate. I understand that businesses like to have resources that aren't burden (hence they would prefer someone in the same city). But this doesn't account the difference. Only my skills should have mattered.

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