No, it's just an artifact of the text in the job descriptions, jobs that happened to phrase it without "Microsoft" happened to pay 1% more -- surprising they're

No, it's just an artifact of the text in the job descriptions, jobs that happened to phrase it without "Microsoft" happened to pay 1% more -- surprising they're that close, really. It's not like you can buy Microsoft Sharepoint developers and relabel them as Sharepoint developers for a profit.