[jpindar]

>I also wonder how much of the perceived age discrimination is due to expectations of an ever-increasing salary.

Expectations on whose part? Based on what I read here on HN, many employers don't want to even interview older applicants because they are just so sure that any older person is going to demand too much money.

[manfredo]

Granted, the reaction of my older co-worker has demonstrated (albeit in only one instance) that this assumption does hold true.