I 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 w

I 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.