[flir]

Companies pay as little as they can get away with. Fair enough. But when their workers are remote, those companies are competing with every other company that's willing to hire remote workers. On the other hand, SWEs are notorious for accepting low pay. So in summary.... who knows how it would shake out?

[war1025]

> SWEs are notorious for accepting low pay

I am simultaneously one of the highest paid people in my peer group, and according to the ranks on HN "low paid".

There is an extreme disconnect between what people in tech seem to think of as normal wages and what the country as a whole (even college educated sectors) considers normal wages.

[mikekchar]

My comparison is usually nurses who have an actually hard job where people's lives are on the line (and lately their own lives). If someone thinks that software developers are notorious for accepting low pay, I can't imagine what they think of nurses. The worst thing that happens in my day is that I might have to battle bombastic management or know it all whipper snappers in order to get my way :-) (Well, to be fair, as a contractor for a company in the travel industry, my biggest stress is making sure they don't get the impression that paying my invoice is optional...)

[flir]

I'm not trying to denigrate nurses (a job that would destroy me, emotionally), but there are more of them and they're in less demand (in general).

[iso947]

Low pay compared to hedge fund managers. Both can (in massive scale organisations) swing massive amounts of money to the company. Neither does it reliably.

[flir]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

If we were decent negotiators we'd earn more, as a class.