Originally Posted by
Der Meister
If we did a national # that would only help us all as it would no doubt increase pay and total compensation. Just look at the private sector in high demand jobs. See technology jobs pay/compensation packages over the last 10 years. You can take your experience and leverage it into higher paying positions at company's that need bodies in the job.
except that experience doesn’t actually make the company money in this job, while it might in, say, engineering management. You’d have zero negotiating leverage when changing jobs