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> Find me any company that doesn't have a difficult time sourcing well-qualified Rails developers, or experienced JavaScript experts. There is huge demand, not

> Find me any company that doesn't have a difficult time sourcing well-qualified Rails developers, or experienced JavaScript experts. There is huge demand, not enough supply If any of that were true, wages would be going up, wouldn't they? Is there any company that couldn't hire someone by paying higher wages? Why are developer wages absolutely flat? I find that the supply of brain surgeons for $10,000/year is quite limited. There's huge demand for brain surgeons at $10K, and not enough supply of brain surgeons willing to work for that wage. We've had the job ad ("Brain Surgeon Wanted: $10K/year") posted on Monster for months. Whatever shall I do? If only there was some solution.

cubano 12y ago
> If any of that were true, wages would be going up, wouldn't they? Is there any company that couldn't hire someone by paying higher wages? Why are developer wages absolutely flat? This is an excellent point, and to add injury to this obvious insult to the IT developer class is the fact that corporate profits are through the roof [1] these days and have, in fact, been growing for years. Any free, non-manipulated labor market will always reward the workers with needed skills a higher wage to attract talent needed to keep the companies products competitive and the management looking good. It seems to me, at least, beyond obvious that corporations are using programs like the H-1B, the elimination of positions for developers over the age of 40, and pressure on managers to keep IT workers fearful of losing their jobs to artificially keep wages down. [1] http://qz.com/192725/what-another-record-year-of-corporate-profits-means-for-the-us-economy/ http://qz.com/192725/what-another-record-year-of-corporate-p...