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> Programmers, specifically, are paid the same inflation-adjusted wages on average as they were in 2001 How many other industries can say the same though?
by serge2k 14y ago
> Programmers, specifically, are paid the same inflation-adjusted wages on average as they were in 2001
How many other industries can say the same though?
- mig39 14y agoI guess the point is that there isn't much of a shortage if they're being paid the same as they were more than 10 years ago. The author also pointed out that wages rose when there was a true shortage. It's the very next sentence. > For example, during the tech boom of the 1990s and bust in the 2000s, salaries and U.S. unemployment in IT exhibited the expected classic supply and demand relationship. Salaries rose when unemployment in the field was low.
- supercanuck 14y agoThe problem with H1-B as well, is that they effectively become indentured servants as well due to the transfer restrictions on them.