Originally Posted by bearisgray
How come people will pay a mechanic, electrician, or a plumber major $ per hour - and what we do requires as much skill and expertise as those jobs?
Because they can't outsource that work to India, China or Indonesia where people can support a family of 5 in good style on 150 dollars a week. (I had this discussion in an international freelance job board once, and we were discussing how programmers would bid 100 dollars on a job that a US worker would need 10 times that and still be underpaid).