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They get paid very differently, is the thing.
by mkozlows 8y ago
They get paid very differently, is the thing.
- BeetleB 8y agoWhy do they? The older candidate may have a higher expectation, but as an employer, the compensation for a particular position should be somewhat fixed. If the older candidate doesn't offer anything more than the "inexperienced" one, offer the same salary you would the inexperienced person. They can always say "No". Trust me: There are plenty of older programmers who do not expect a higher pay because of their age. In my career, whenever I hear "older people expect a higher salary", it has almost always been by employers/managers, not by actual older professionals. On the other hand, I've met quite a few programmers who complained they didn't get an offer or were told they were ruled out because they were "too senior", and the complaint almost always was along the lines of "I was not asked salary expectations".
- scarface74 8y agoI have a former manager who is in his 50s. As soon as his kids graduated he self demoted to a full stack developer working with React/C# and Azure. I have another friend in his 40s who took a job that let him work from home who is in his 40s and it pays less than he was making when we were working together.
- rabidrat 8y agoNot as differently as you might think. When I was more junior, I assumed the wage increases would continue as they had been. But they flatten out after 10-15 years of experience, to the point that the salary of someone with 15 years of experience is probably the same as someone with 30 years of experience.