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What location is this? So this pool of skilled applicants who won't work for 55K, what jobs are they doing instead? Since most explanations of your sort claim t
by npalli 11y ago
What location is this? So this pool of skilled applicants who won't work for 55K, what jobs are they doing instead? Since most explanations of your sort claim that a large pool of skilled IT workers will materialize if the pay is increased, let's say the pay is increased to 75K which job sectors will people leave and join IT?
- UK-AL 11y agoWell other professions with become less attractive in comparison and skilled people will train to be developers. In many places it still a far better career decision, to train to become an accountant, lawyer, sales, etc then to become a developer.
- fweespeech 11y ago> Since most explanations of your sort claim that a large pool of skilled IT workers will materialize if the pay is increased, let's say the pay is increased to 75K which job sectors will people leave and join IT? We have no trouble filling positions at $70k. Like, literally, we have never had an open position for longer than 60 days. The problem is people keep complaining they can't fill positions and pay $15-20k below market rate. Why, yes, people are not going to take a 20% paycut to work for you.
- TheCoelacanth 11y agoIt will work the same way that supply and demand works for everything. 1. it encourages a larger supply because more people will be incentivized to work in the field 2. it encourages more efficient use of the workers, e.g. using more off-the-shelf software instead of custom solutions. 3. it discourages less valuable uses of the workers, freeing them up to do more valuable work