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Re:Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techi... by lumost on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @09:55AM (#31339985)
This strongly depends on the company. In high growth industries this is absolutely true, in low-growth industries/companies its somewhat debatable. I suspect that this is why software salaries were tightly correlated with tech growth for the last 3 decades. The 90s, and 2010s were great times to be a software engineer - but average salaries were more than cut in half during the oughts.
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Re:Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techi... by tomc1985 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:00AM (#31340056)
If you're doing tech stuff to replace some kind of human, manual labor then I think this applies regardless of your sector or growth rating. Tech enables companies to do more with less -- at lesat, that's the dream -- and I suspect that if the economics aren't favorable for tech they'd rather have cheap expendable labor.

We are the practitioners realizing that dream for our masters.

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