Comment by ManlyBread

It should be of no concern to the employer where I live; that's my decision and deciding my salary based on that is nothing but pure discrimination, no better than discriminating based on race or ethnicity. If you can afford to pay a certain amount of money to someone living near you then you can afford to pay the same amount of money to someone living in Romania. There's also the issue of calculating the cost of living - why should I trust a US based employer to be able to correctly calculate my cost of living if I live in Saudi Arabia?