Depends really. A surprisingly large number of organisations don't seem to be equipped to handle business input from the development staff or any kind of "produ

Depends really. A surprisingly large number of organisations don't seem to be equipped to handle business input from the development staff or any kind of "productivity multiplier" contributions. E.g: making the team more efficient, reducing signup friction, fixing UX annoyances, inventing a new feature or product, improving security practices, reducing defect rates by introducing CI/static analysis/whatever. In this case the job of the developer will be to write code and it doesn't make sense to pay high salaries because the ROI is not there. This leads to the situation where very good developers aren't paid good salaries because in such a company they are literally not worth the money.