Unfortunately yes, especially companies that are not IT but have a fair percentage of IT employees and salary bands; they don't like to have different salary ba

Unfortunately yes, especially companies that are not IT but have a fair percentage of IT employees and salary bands; they don't like to have different salary bands between functions, like finance, marketing, IT, logistics, HR, etc. so there is a pressure to keep IT salaries in line with the other functions. Even if the IT guy with 2 years in the company brings 10 times more value than the 2 year bean counter, "equality, diversity and inclusion" is interpreted like "pay all people on the same salary band the same", especially when in finance/accounting you have mostly women* and in IT mostly men and you want, as a company CEO, to eliminate the "gender wage gap". * At least in my country for most, if not all companies.