When I moved from London to the Bay Area, Facebook increased my salary by 50%. Five. Zero. Same job. Same team. Same manager. Same work. Cost of living had nothing to do with it. It was the “market rate”.

But in an era where people can move wherever they want and work for whoever they want. What is market rate? Wouldn’t it normalize nationally, globally?

I know Facebook is in the spotlight, I only mention them because I worked there! Did people really think that salaries were normalized across physical engineering offices in the first place?

I feel uneasy about sharing this but whatever. My FB UK salary was £72k GBP which at the time was $95k USD. My FB US salary was $141k USD. This was in November 2017.

While I'm sharing comp info my salary before I left Facebook was $188k (I wasn an E5). My new Discord salary is $215k. If anyone has any questions about compensation history then I'm happy to share more, including stock and bonuses.