Just remember everyone... a majority of the people who respond to surveys like these are people who are unemployed right or have a gripe with how their life is. very rarely do you get the person who is doing good and happy responding to surveys.
What survey? This is a research paper, and from the research paper:
"We start by qualitatively analyzing 24 popular online articles. We contextualize our findings using
scientific literature on ageing in software development and a follow-up study investigating discussions
about the above-mentioned articles on Hacker News"
But quite often that is valid. Any job can only pay as much as the job is worth.
If a more experienced developer who demands a higher salary is taking on work which can be carried out by a less experienced and therefore cheaper developer, it's to be expected that they wouldn't pay for the more expensive developer.
Just because someone is a world class michelin star chef, you're still only going to pay them mcdonalds wages for flipping burgers
Right, but if you give someone the bracket, they say they're fine with it, they interview well and then HR says "it's too expensive" and you're billing yourself as a youthful fancy startup... then reading between the lines is a skill.
