Whenever I read articles like this, I wonder if there's some management conspiracy, especially amongst VC-backed firms, to keep tech salaries stagnant. A very s

Whenever I read articles like this, I wonder if there's some management conspiracy, especially amongst VC-backed firms, to keep tech salaries stagnant. A very successful conspiracy, seeing how programmers and systems administrators in San Francisco make roughly the same amount of money in 2010 that they did in 1999, without any inflationary adjustments (because they never got those adjustments).