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This trips up large companies all the time. They can’t hire SAP or AI or cloud or whatever is hot. The good ones train their own, but even then they can’t keep them when they’re paid 40% below market for the skill.

The irony is the same companies can pay 3x the comp for external consultants.

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I was told it's different budget line, so nobody really cares. HR just does not like to see IT being paid 4 times as much as them.

> The irony is the same companies can pay 3x the comp for external consultants.

I once worked for a university during a large ERP migration.

There was a mix of employees and consultants working on the migration.

Everyone that the university managed to hire (at salaries WAY below-market price) was almost immediately snatched and started working as consultants themselves (in other companies, obviously). And rightly so.

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