> So why are software companies so willing to offer more pay for a managerial role that is easy to hire for, and so unwilling to offer more pay for a technical role that is one of the hardest to hire for?
It really depends on which part of the "software world" the company is situated in and the value they put in engineering.
A lot of companies have this exaggerated structure to value the work done by the project manager and business analyst (usually spec-ing out work and abstracting customer interaction from the rest of the team). The effects of abstracting customer interaction allows them to be valued highly, which will make them reside on the top of the chain and get compensated accordingly. The rest of the team doesn’t matter that much as long as they’ve got the right qualifications to convert requirements into working code.
It really depends on which part of the "software world" the company is situated in and the value they put in engineering.
A lot of companies have this exaggerated structure to value the work done by the project manager and business analyst (usually spec-ing out work and abstracting customer interaction from the rest of the team). The effects of abstracting customer interaction allows them to be valued highly, which will make them reside on the top of the chain and get compensated accordingly. The rest of the team doesn’t matter that much as long as they’ve got the right qualifications to convert requirements into working code.
This stackoverflow answer will give you an idea:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4577...