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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

In this case the Unions and HRs rigidity could be part of the problem.

They tend to make groups based on formal qualifiaction. E.g. all trade apprentices get similiar salaries, all trade masters, all bachelor degrees and all master degrees (simplified).

So a person with just a formal trade apprentice, but great experience and proven know-how will still get a much lower salary than a recently graduates business degree "idiot" who mostly managed to study based on his parents pushing him through.

I've seen Job ads for cloud experts, who are supposed to organize an infrastructure over multiple data centres, running hundreds of different services in a heightened security environment offered around 3k. The Operations people said that this does not need a masters degree, because they didn't want to filter out all the self taught people, and then HR and the Union reps said this is a trade level position so it gets a trade level salary.

From what i understood with the complexity of the IT landscape they would have needed to offer more around 6-7k to find people.