I think in New York and California at least, developers are getting paid closer to what their work is worth. Salaries are often hitting the $300k ballpark for h

I think in New York and California at least, developers are getting paid closer to what their work is worth. Salaries are often hitting the $300k ballpark for highly talented developers. Average pay itself is now around a $150k. I think it's primarily developers in other countries[1] that are getting severely underpaid. Hopefully that changes in the coming years. [1] The most egregious example might be India. Around 7 years ago, I was on a plane from Kerala (a state in India), and the guy sitting next to me happened to run a software consulting company (in Kerala). His customers were from Japan and some other countries (can't remember), and his company wrote Linux drivers for proprietary hardware. He hired kids right out of college. I asked him how much he paid them, and he said without blinking, Rs. 15000 per month. Type in "INR 15000 to USD" to Google, and you're in for a shock. It's around $2600 per year, but probably closer to $3000 per year at the exchange rates back then. American developers doing the same job could earn up to 100 times that, and at the very least 40 times that amount. I can't understand why on Earth salaries are 40 to a 100 times higher for the same exact work, and for work that could be done by anyone anywhere on the globe, but I hope this massive difference in pay converges and disappears soon.