I don't pay a great deal of attention to trends around pay in technology (or elsewhere for that matter), so here come some general vibes, based on... not a whole lot.
I imagine incumbent devs will continue to make good money, especially if they have a good amount of time with their company. Domain experience trumps everything else when it comes to getting paid well and your company wanting to hold on to you.
The generation that is currently growing up, learning to code in elementary school, is likely in for a rude awakening when they make it to the real world and find that starting salaries for folks who can code aren't that much higher than the average bank teller or retail worker. When what we do becomes a part of a basic K-12 education, there's no way the lower band of the salary spread can stay as high as it is now. Supply and demand and all that.
I can totally envision future-kids having after school jobs hacking out a bit of code for bank-x or retailer-y for a meager hourly rate.
When a topic like this comes up I always think back to when an aunt of mine was a very highly paid sales assistant and a high-end department store, pre-internet, when she genuinely knew more than her customers about what color tie would look best with those shoes. Fast forward 25 years, those folks are barely making minimum wage (if the stores they work for haven't already gone bankrupt).
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I don't pay a great deal of attention to trends around pay in technology (or elsewhere for that matter), so here come some general vibes, based on... not a whole lot.
I imagine incumbent devs will continue to make good money, especially if they have a good amount of time with their company. Domain experience trumps everything else when it comes to getting paid well and your company wanting to hold on to you.
The generation that is currently growing up, learning to code in elementary school, is likely in for a rude awakening when they make it to the real world and find that starting salaries for folks who can code aren't that much higher than the average bank teller or retail worker. When what we do becomes a part of a basic K-12 education, there's no way the lower band of the salary spread can stay as high as it is now. Supply and demand and all that.
I can totally envision future-kids having after school jobs hacking out a bit of code for bank-x or retailer-y for a meager hourly rate.
When a topic like this comes up I always think back to when an aunt of mine was a very highly paid sales assistant and a high-end department store, pre-internet, when she genuinely knew more than her customers about what color tie would look best with those shoes. Fast forward 25 years, those folks are barely making minimum wage (if the stores they work for haven't already gone bankrupt).