> Less experienced developers are cheaper What are we talking about here ? Comparing a developer with 10 year experience vs with 20 years ? Or one fresh out of

> Less experienced developers are cheaper What are we talking about here ? Comparing a developer with 10 year experience vs with 20 years ? Or one fresh out of school, with a senior developer ? Because around here, your salary will be determined by your actual responsibilities and the only way for a guy with 20+ years of experience to make more than one with 5-10 years is to have been in that company for during those 20 years, accruing benefits. Similarly, contract price are about the same. They haven't even raised much in the last 10 years. Unless you become consultant on a specific topic, you are getting paid the same regardless how much more experience you have over 3 years. The inflexibility has a flip side too: a developer that has been developing for 20 years is most likely doing exactly what he wants to do. Can probably count on him to be there to see the project through production, and not having "move up" or strategically move to other office, technology stack, companies.