> The average Developer/Engineer/etc works about 60 hours a week, they work on things that generate millions of dollars. Hardly anyone I know regularly works 6

> The average Developer/Engineer/etc works about 60 hours a week, they work on things that generate millions of dollars. Hardly anyone I know regularly works 60 hours a week.. Even if I generated a company millions of dollars, that doesn't give any indication of how much they should pay me because it doesn't count for much if a million other people can also generate them the same amount or more. If you feel like you should get paid more then perhaps you should consider switching to a job where you would get paid more? If there are no takers then presumably you don't offer something which is valuable enough that companies are willing to pay the amount you think they should. Of course, I suppose one of the big problems with programmers is that it's very difficult to measure job performance but either way, I have a very hard time complaining about my compensation.