Try time the clerks in your local supermarket, I am sure you can find one which is twice as fast as the slowest, should he or she get twice the salary? When it

Try time the clerks in your local supermarket, I am sure you can find one which is twice as fast as the slowest, should he or she get twice the salary? When it comes to programming there are relatively many bad programmers hired (on a base salary). Maybe the good programmers are underpaid, but definitely the bad programmers are overpaid. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that programmers are generally bad at negotiating their own salary.