[konceptz]

I came here to say this, thanks.

On the dev side. I’ve been told that there are a few main consultancy firms which do the bulk of development for most companies. It’s more appropriate to hire these firms than it is to build your own teams. Because these firms do not pay high amounts to their devs, it sets the norm across the country.

[patio11]

I mean there are a lot of causational arrows. In central Japan, for example, there exists an ultimate monopsony consumer of all engineering labor. Their salary scale is known to middle schoolers. All engineering labor is priced against that scale, sometimes directly, because that scale informs what they'll pay subcontractors and then the magic of consulting math replicates that scale across the supply chain.