What I am finding in Sydney, Australia is that (I believe) many companies are willing to pay more than what they advertise in the job ad, so don’t take the advert as gospel. They probably want to try and get people at a lower rate, but it is tough to recruit good people in Sydney, but at the same time, with the current exchange rate a Sydney employee might be getting 33-50% less than a San Francisco one for the same job.
What I am finding in Sydney, Australia is that (I believe) many companies are willing to pay more than what they advertise in the job ad, so don’t take the advert as gospel. They probably want to try and get people at a lower rate, but it is tough to recruit good people in Sydney, but at the same time, with the current exchange rate a Sydney employee might be getting 33-50% less than a San Francisco one for the same job.