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> SWE is an occupation that ought to be paid more (for scalability reasons) Scalability isn't a reason for salaries to be higher. It doesn't matter if an empl
by benhurmarcel 5y ago
> SWE is an occupation that ought to be paid more (for scalability reasons)
Scalability isn't a reason for salaries to be higher.
It doesn't matter if an employee generates $1M/year or $100M/year for the company; if somebody else would accept to do it for $100k/year that's what he's getting.
- barry-cotter 5y ago> if somebody else would accept to do it for $100k/year that's what he's getting. Very true but they aren’t. That’s what makes it a hot market.
- franciscop 5y agoIt is, maybe as a second order force but if Google, Facebook etc can pay Engineers those salaries, it's only because of their already well oiled scalability that those Engineers built; if they were selling anything with tiny margins, they could not have a large percentage of their employees have a huge salary. And this is what generates demand, which generates scarcity of talent, which makes both what you say and what I said true. To understand that scalability (/margin per employee) is true, a good counter example would be: if there was a constrain of McDonnalds employees for some reason and that persisted, the company could not afford to pay them $100k salaries because it just doesn't make that much profit per employee (does not scale).