Managing roles get paid more. I would not have a problem with that, if they were good. Few developers/teams are self-organizing so they would productive without

Managing roles get paid more. I would not have a problem with that, if they were good. Few developers/teams are self-organizing so they would productive without. However, while working over 30 years as a developer (and fighting all the time to avoid manageral responsibilities) only less than a handful managers were really worth their money. (At least one of them even paid poorly for the typical discrimination reasons of being a woman from Vietnam[1]) Often enough you can be happy if they don't cause more bad than good for the development and stay out of your way. Edit: [1] Example is not from Germany but another European country. But I doubt it's hugely different anywhere.