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Don't shut it down, make it open so we can all benefit. But I imagine no one would update it. From a data standpoint, using such a resource to determine salari
by coldcode 8y ago
Don't shut it down, make it open so we can all benefit. But I imagine no one would update it.
From a data standpoint, using such a resource to determine salaries would like cause salaries to become predictable, based solely on what other people paid for the combination of experiences used to classify the salaries (Ruby programmers with 5 years of experience in startups of size Z get X). So salaries would tend to not diversify much from the median (perhaps tend down a little).
- briandear 8y agoThat also neglects the quality of those 5 years of experience as it relates to the actual position. 5 years of designing financial services systems is more valuable to a financial services company than 5 years of building web applications for a dating company. That is the problem I have with collective bargaining in higher skilled fields — it assumes people are interchangeable based on worthless “years of experience” metrics. Some sysadmin with 20 year experience might not know the first thing about DevOps, while a fresh college graduate might be an expert. Yet the 20 year guy would get paid more despite knowing less.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThe problem of outliers not being able to fully maximize their earnings under collective bargaining is a substantially smaller issue than everyone being underpaid without collective bargaining.