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I never understood this since I worked for the US military for 22 years. Everyone knew exactly what everyone else made, including extra duty pay, housing allowances, bonuses, etc.

We never bitched about the pay someone else was making. It was just the way it was.

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Software devs are totally not like military personnel. Marketing people are not like military personnel. Of course I assume there is bunch of a-holes in mil and people who try to game the system. I never been to military but I assume there are much more clear rules, ofc your superior might like you more and you get promoted, but there is no ranks or requirements written down in business so amounts of gray areas is much larger there.

In the business world, there is no objective measure for the value of all things. I have to pay someone enough they'll do what I need them to do, but not too much that I cannot recoup expenses and keep the business running. What that value is is not exactly defined, b/c the life of the business and the market it depends on is a very dynamic thing.

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