You're not overpaid. Decent programmers, properly set up and put to work on useful projects, can easily add 4-10 times the average programmer salary in business

You're not overpaid. Decent programmers, properly set up and put to work on useful projects, can easily add 4-10 times the average programmer salary in business value. Look at house prices in the Bay Area or New York: $500,000 for starter houses, and $1 million is not uncommon. Read: someone is making a shit-ton of money, and it's not us. Executives are overpaid. Our numbers are merely creeping up to our real value, and still 25 to 50 cents on the dollar. We're just less underpaid than most of the poor saps out there.