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I think there is a lot of truth to this. Big Law is a great example of this, where the nearly every firm operates in lockstep on the Craveth Scale[1]. If one firm increases salary, every other firm will for for same cycle.

https://www.biglawinvestor.com/biglaw-salary-scale/

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Isn't this basically collusion by companies? Didn't Google/Facebook get in trouble for trying something like this at some point?

I can imagine no other organization more capable of following the letter of the law - if not the spirit - than a group of lawfirms.

It's not collusion if every other firm raises salaries only to remain competitive, and I doubt many people are complaining about higher salaries. The companies you mention had secret no-hire agreements in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Why would companies collude to raise salaries? If other law firms did not raise salaries to remain competitive, that would be suspicious, especially if the firm that did mysteriously lowered them again a short time later.

One rule for lawyers one for the little people

SWEs making 300k+ are not the little people

Relatively speaking of course and also I was kind'a alluding to the cross over between politicians and lawyers.

> Relatively speaking of course

In no world are SWEs "relatively speaking" little people compared to lawyers.

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