That can well be true for one particular company, but what does it mean for employment as a whole? Say you increase the comp and you find a person for the posit

That can well be true for one particular company, but what does it mean for employment as a whole? Say you increase the comp and you find a person for the position. It's not like they have been sitting twiddling their thumbs, you hire them away from some other company. Now a different company has this problem. Without some external contribution, like willingness to invest into on-job training, availability of online and brick-and-mortar education, this is a zero-sum game.