Someone has 10 years of continuous experience, knowledge, and work. They makes $100k. Someone else is the same age, graduated the same year, from the same scho

Someone has 10 years of continuous experience, knowledge, and work. They makes $100k. Someone else is the same age, graduated the same year, from the same school, but took two years off of work and therefore has 8 years of experience. They make $80k, which is less than their colleague. See the difference?