There is a lot of natural pressure to keep wages down in most companies. This is far, far worse in companies where software isn't their primary business. Progr

There is a lot of natural pressure to keep wages down in most companies. This is far, far worse in companies where software isn't their primary business. Programmer wages are going up much faster than other wages (even more if it is a developer who is in their first 5 or so years in the industry), and it can be hard to hand out the frequent and relatively higher raises necessary to keep good/improving developers from going elsewhere, while other people in the company see far less in terms of raises. It all ends up being for naught when the company has to find a replacement (which costs money) and train them (which costs even more money), and usually ends up paying them close to what it would have cost to keep the old person around in the first place. But that's usually politically easier than handing out raises all the time.