"Our current run of low unemployment is economically weird in that salaries haven’t gone up that much." There is nothing weird, many companies took measure to

"Our current run of low unemployment is economically weird in that salaries haven’t gone up that much." There is nothing weird, many companies took measure to not be impacted by hiring the cheapest people that can try to do the job, not caring too much about skills. My employer (big US-based non-IT company) is now hiring in IT without any IT skills interview or even a CV/credential check with the mindset that if they can keep the lights on for a few years, the next recession we can hire experienced people for cheap to fix the things that are currently neglected. I see this in every company I work with, big and famous IT software or services suppliers that are scrapping the bottom of the barrel and gives us unqualified people play-pretending to be developers, DBA's, architects etc. Everybody is cutting corners, in some cases very visible (Boeing), in others subtle (Intel and the 10 nm saga) and everyone else in between.