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When I first became 'full time', I was on $50k salary, which eventually got put up to 55. I did the most work of my life and felt good about my effort, doing min 60hr weeks. The next company was 65, then up to 67, and only 36hr weeks and paid for overtime/oncall etc. and most people there did fuck all.
Theres been studies on wage to productivity and the more you pay them, the less they will do without financial benefit. It was the same wih the workers, they were getting $22ph and were absolute machines. Next co was $27ph, and half were shit. I pay $36ph and the trend continues. Although I do have a few top knotch wagies that deserve it but it makes no difference to output other than them feeling high and mighty that their shit doesnt stink.
When I was on 67, the median wage was 63, and I felt that was adequate, I bought a house on that. That was only 3 years ago.