So, if you have a company that depends on uptime, then pay the people doing the maintenance programming / sysadmin twice as much as the normal developers since

So, if you have a company that depends on uptime, then pay the people doing the maintenance programming / sysadmin twice as much as the normal developers since they don't get to play with the new thing, they are much more likely to have to deal with things at odd hours, and need to be promoted based on keeping the business running.