Why do the project managers get more money than programmers?

accidentally sees this interesting question on programmers.stackexchange.com, and some people ask: why do business analysts and project managers pay more than programmers, since it is generally considered difficult to work? Most of the time programmers are found to be the ones who leave the company at the latest, but those guys get paid more for their jobs.

, but there seems to be only one that makes sense, and it is an analysis of the economic principles.

The rewards that people receive tend to be lower than their bosses ' highest standards, rather than their "minimum requirements". Within this range, your actual income depends on your bargaining power relative to your boss.

Assume that the service you provide to the company is worth 1000 dollars a day. If you point a gun at him, he will give you the price because he has no choice. If you have no choice, you can only accept 100 dollars a day. This is your floating range.

Suppose you are a novice, no background, not famous, your boss is Google. Google has a strong bargaining capital, it can wait, to hire others, many people want to work for it. You have very little capital, you need to pay the rent, so you can only accept more than $100 a day instead of 1000 dollars.

Suppose you are the last COBOL programmer on Earth, and your boss is running a COBOL program on the mainframe. Well, you have a very strong bargaining capital, and you will be paid nearly 1000 dollars a day.

So either your project manager or business analyst is more valuable to the company or they have more bargaining capital. I do not think it is the former, that is to say, it should be the latter. Few people are good at interpersonal relationships. Such things cannot be outsourced —— because they need to touch customers. Their relative scarcity gives them more bargaining capital, so they have a higher pay.

This ingenious answer comes from NRM, although it's a bit boring compared to all the other political-related answers, but it does reflect the reality. As he mentions, sociable people are scarce, and such people can come to great advantage in any company, especially in the area of software development.