> Skilled computer scientists with some management responsibilities, for instance, often make base salaries of $180,000 to $210,000. Huh. I guess I need to go

> Skilled computer scientists with some management responsibilities, for instance, often make base salaries of $180,000 to $210,000. Huh. I guess I need to go find some management responsibilities somewhere, dealing with people issues instead of computer issues for part of the day can't be that bad... > Behind the scenes, technology companies are making the case that agreements among companies are not anticompetitive and don't affect employees' salaries or the availability of jobs. They say such agreements are commonplace, used by companies to maintain good relationships with business partners. > The technology industry makes the case that it would be harder to enter into collaborative ventures with other companies if they fear losing valuable employees. That seems rather contradictory; if there's no effect on the employee's opportunities, what are the companies afraid of? > Policing the labor markets hasn't been a central focus of antitrust enforcers in recent years. But the Justice Department did act against what it saw as efforts to manipulate the labor market. It brought a civil case against a group of hospitals in Utah in 1994, alleging that they had illegally conspired to hold down nurses' wages by exchanging information about their pay. Maybe this could be an argument for not keeping salaries a secret; get rid of the information asymmetry.