In other countries, with less technical jobs, this effect applies to all kind to technical fields.
You go to an electronics engineering class. There are a few superbrilliant people. The rest are quite clever though.
As there are a few jobs available for the technical skills that you learn at class, only the superbrilliant get those jobs.
It turns out that the companies say to these superbrilliant guys: "I am giving you a unique opportunity to work in this top field in this country. So your salary is not about money, but motivation".
End of the story: the rest of the guys, not the super brilliant, end up working in more generic stuff like management, consultancy, generic simple software.... And they make way more money that the superbrilliant guys.
These examples are taken from Spain. Althoug I have seen similar in other European countries with more technical jobs.
You go to an electronics engineering class. There are a few superbrilliant people. The rest are quite clever though.
As there are a few jobs available for the technical skills that you learn at class, only the superbrilliant get those jobs.
It turns out that the companies say to these superbrilliant guys: "I am giving you a unique opportunity to work in this top field in this country. So your salary is not about money, but motivation".
End of the story: the rest of the guys, not the super brilliant, end up working in more generic stuff like management, consultancy, generic simple software.... And they make way more money that the superbrilliant guys.
These examples are taken from Spain. Althoug I have seen similar in other European countries with more technical jobs.