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More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com)
gollum123 writes: Tech workers are the envy of labor market -- they earn some of the highest starting salaries and often command top-notch benefits. But money doesn't always buy satisfaction. Entrepreneur reports that tech workers in major American cities earn an average of $135,000 and yet, a survey of 6,000 tech workers conducted by workplace app Blind and reported by Quartz found that over 60 percent feel they aren't being paid enough. The survey also breaks down how tech workers feel about their pay by company. The five tech companies with the highest percentage of employees who felt they were underpaid shared one important characteristic: They were all founded before 1998. Cisco, Intel, Expedia, VMware and Microsoft employees were the most likely to say that they did not make enough money. Cisco had the highest percentage of dissatisfied employees, with 80 percent telling Blind that they did not feel adequately compensated. Facebook employees, on the other hand, were the most like to say that they are overpaid, with 13.8 percent saying that they felt their employer was overly generous.
Maybe they should form a union.
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I worked in a unionized environment for 10 years; I make 6x as much as I did then.
My biggest issue with unions, aside from their political lobbying and, previously, mandate I pay them a percentage of my salary to give me what they consider to be adequate representation is that should, for some reason, make the same as or less than the amount my coworker does when they are less educated, less talented, less able, and less efficient just because they've been there longer than I have.
This is what comes to mind when someone says union to me.
I used to drive tow trucks in an inner city. Then I was an auto mechanic. At work I've been shot at, assaulted, crushed, cut, and burned. My hands and arms are covered in scars and there's still some metal in there.
Now I sit in a climate controlled cubicle on an ergonomic chair and make ten times as much money.
Not that I'd turn down a raise, but overpaid/underpaid are relative terms. The times I feel underpaid, I have to remind myself of the days working on tractor trailers in the summer heat of the deep south.
The most wealthy countries in the world also tend to have the highest wealth. Ignorant xenophobes like you think immigrants come over because we're wealthy, wildly oblivious to the fact that we're wealthy because we allow immigrants to come here.
What, you think America, a newly discovered country was magically wealthy from day 1? Nonsense, America is built on migration, and attracting both the brightest and best at the high end, and the cheapest and hardest working at the low end.
Both of these are essential for a functioning economy - the brightest and best to innovate, and a cheap base to work hard.
No one ever had their job stolen by an immigrant because an immigrant nearly always comes from a country with poorer education system and less able to handle the culture and language. If anyone loses their job to someone more poorly educated than them, less able to speak the language, and less able to integrate with the culture then they need to take a long hard look at their utter fucking failure to be a functioning human being, and if that has ever happened, well, tough shit, people like that can't be allowed to hold everyone else back.
You only have to look at Brexit, now that cheap eastern European labour isn't coming to the UK because Brexit has scared them off, there's no one to pick the crops, and not enough nurses and doctors. Those are major fucking issues and no amounts of wishful thinking will suddenly make British born people want to work the fields, or suddenly en-masse convert into being doctors and nurses. It means we get poorer as we can't grow our own crops and have to import, and it means we have to accept more sick people and more people dying younger which in itself pulls people out of the productive economy.
Productivity of what? You're trying to link a bunch of vague, unsourced statistics for some sort of class warfare propaganda. Are you trying to say quality of life has decreased? Because I would say the opposite. Quality of life has more than doubled. Everything is safer, cheaper, and just better compared to 40 years ago. Internet, cell phones, tvs, transportation is much safer and more comfortable. For the average person life 40 years ago is crap in comparison with today.
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