[pyre]

> requiring that moving into management always come with a pay cut to make people honest

What about people that can't afford a pay cut financially?

[hugh_]

If you can't find a way to deal with a pay cut, you're probably not cut out to be a manager.

If you're spending 100% of your income then you're not good at planning ahead.

If you can't find things to cut in your personal budget, you'll suck at managing the company's budget.

And if you can't talk your wife into making do with less, you're not persuasive enough to handle employees.

[pyre]

You know... sometimes life throws you curveballs. If you believe that planning will prevent any and all financial problems from appearing then I have a bridge to sell you...

[alttab]

I don't understand the down vote at all - every single one of these points is true.

It sounds so trivial, but actually applying it is the difference.

[btilly]

Ironically the research that book was based on found that most of the skills you've listed are not important for good managers.

[btilly]

What about people that can't afford a pay cut financially?

Isn't it obvious? If you can't afford the pay cut, don't try to become a manager.

Stop and think about it from the employer's position. If your star programmer becomes a manager, the only guarantee is that you've lost a good programmer. The odds are low that you'll get a good manager out of the deal. So why should they pay more for less value?

Remember. Smart companies don't hand out money out of some notion of what is fair. They pay money because that is the cost of the value those employees are expected to provide. (Note that companies avoid paying the actual value provided, because doing so is a recipe for going bankrupt.) If the deal that they are willing to offer you does not meet your needs, you are free to find a deal that is more to your taste.