> But with tech everyone should be paid the same if you share the same title regardless of how different you are or how much value you bring to the table.

Why? Different people bring different value. The same title can have wildly different roles, some positions with the same titles can be much harder to replace than others.

For example: at my company my team has a very specialized role that is far outside the domains of all other developers (we're talking about a large multinational here, with thousands of employees). You bet your ass we make a decent chunk more than most other devs, replacing any one of us would cost a ton of money and require over a year of learning about our stuff; replacing one of the devs who works on our main product? In half a year you could get someone to full productivity.

In other words: some employees are more expensive to replace than others, either shower them with €€€ or pay a much higher cost when they go work elsewhere.