If this had been titled ...(1980), it would have mad a point. Back then there was a practice that managers had to make more than their subordinates. There was

If this had been titled ...(1980), it would have mad a point. Back then there was a practice that managers had to make more than their subordinates. There was real salary compression among engineers. If an engineer go to 40 he had to become a manager in order to put his kids through college. Companies started to create separate career paths for developers so they could get paid more. Then came the restructuring of the 80's to a flatter management hierarchy and suddenly it was middle managers who were out on the streets.