legedemon

I'm a Software Engineer working remotely from India. My current compensation is $200K. My current employer wants me to move to San Francisco. I've read that the cost of living there is very high compared to the other cities in the US itself and several times when compared to India. To address my concern, my employer has promised to increase my compensation to $250K. I have two questions here:

1. Does the raise justify the increase in the cost of living there?

2. If the answer to 1 is not, what is a reasonable equivalent compensation?

While looking for an answer online, I found an equivalent income calculator[0] based on PPP. It tells me that the equivalent salary in the US should be ~$714K. That number looks rather outrageous. Hence, this post.

[0]http://salaryconverter.nigelb.me/