Some companies have therefore decided to take location out of the salary equation. For example, online real-estate marketplace Zillow pays the same wage to employees who move away from its Seattle headquarters to anywhere in the US. “It’s a philosophy of giving people the same opportunity to earn top-end salaries regardless of where they live,” says Dan Spaulding, chief people officer at Zillow. “It means they don’t have to pick between a great paying job and a location that matters to them.”