> The value of your contribution over the person next to you is marginal at best after a certain point. Even if you are say 50% more efficient than the next eng

> The value of your contribution over the person next to you is marginal at best after a certain point. Even if you are say 50% more efficient than the next engineer. You will still be less valuable than someone who operates as a force multiplier improving the efficiency of 8 engineers by 15%. If someone is 50% more efficient than someone else, I would naively think it makes sense to pay them 50% more... without requiring them to also become a part-time manager. If it isn't so, then it naively seems to me that junior developers are overpaid, and senior developers are relatively underpaid. Improve your productivity by 100%, and get a 10% raise (or a 30% raise but you also get extra duties). Some companies simply do not hire junior developers, which seems like they agree with me. And the companies that hire juniors, are probably doing it out of desperation (because seniors are not available at the moment), or because they expect that most of those juniors will forget to negotiate for a higher salary when their productivity multiplies a few years later. Would you hire junior developers if you knew with 100% certainty that after 1 year all of them will leave in order to get a market-level salary for their gained experience?