I am not sure what you mean by &#x27;want to pay&#x27;. It isn&#x27;t like the companies that can&#x27;t pay higher prices are rolling in profit. The companies that DO make a lot of money DO pay their engineers good wages. It is just that most companies tech workers don&#x27;t add enough profit to afford their work.<p>If a company will make $100k extra in profit a year from the work a developer does, but the worker capable of doing that costs $150k a year, that company isn&#x27;t going to be able to hire the worker. It isn&#x27;t about &#x27;wanting to pay them less&#x27; it is about the fact that every worker needs to produce more value than they cost, or the company will go out of business .