That's a surprising thing to say, given that software engineers are always in demand, companies are complaining they can't find candidates and yet salaries aren

That's a surprising thing to say, given that software engineers are always in demand, companies are complaining they can't find candidates and yet salaries aren't growing at a high rate. Companies like Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe even broke the law and colluded to keep SW engineer salaries down and then paid a pittance when they got caught. And SW is an abnormally in-demand field. According to HBR "Since the early 1970s, the hourly inflation-adjusted wages received by the typical worker have barely risen, growing only 0.2% per year" in the US. So not only is the market not fixing anything, sometimes even the law is not enough.