I don't think that money resolves everything (at least, normal sums of money, lol). If they are paying him the minimum, that means they don't value what he does

I don't think that money resolves everything (at least, normal sums of money, lol). If they are paying him the minimum, that means they don't value what he does. I guess that's the reason he has a lot of projects to handle... probably other developers have left for the same reasons. Reductio ad absurdum: If somebody offers me a full time job of sewer-cleaning, paying me 15k, i'd probably pass, because I value other things besides money. I want to enjoy what I do, and the market right now (at least for the dev community) gives me enough options to choose where I want to work. He'd probably learn A LOT more, somewhere else, working with other people, and where the company actually values him. Someone would think that the kind of people who hires devs in such conditions, having a high employee turnover, would start to value them a little more. Sadly, my experience knowing a few cases firsthand, is that they think "there's always someone else".