Music Fiend
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Yes, all true.If the person being paid $25k deserves to be paid as much as a doctor, then they should just go become a doctor and start cutting people open and prescribing medications.
The issue is biggest, tech is changing so quickly that high level folks tend to not hold the knowledge in their company/department. You'll have the director of ______ who is paid 150k to give "expert opinions" and manage their team (often not even doing that well), meanwhile the mid-level people are making 40-60k, hold the knowledge of what going on in the industry, have the largest workload and amount of roles (even out of their job description), and get the least credit so there's less opportunity for growth. Guess what? When it's bonus or review time, that director will be able to say HIS team did XYZ and get a nice bonus and/or raise. The worker who did the majority of the work at a high level is given no promotion (because there's no room from growth in a top-heavy management organization) and, a "generous" increase of 5% which is $2-2.5k added to their salary now they make $42.5k-$65k.
IMO organizations should create more roles, and lessen the scope of the job descriptions while proving a path to a promotion. Meanwhile your director got a cool $2k bonus and a 10% bump up for his teams record year (an addition $17k to sit there and let watch you do it all for 40-60 hrs a week while they log off barely hitting 40 hrs.)
