> Despite the average salary for tech workers breaking six figures in 2022, many IT and tech professionals still feel underpaid.
> According to hiring experts, the most significant factor contributing to this feeling is likely the long and extra work hours of the existing IT staff, which makes them feel burdened.
This is great point. I'm sure we all know someone in this field who has experienced burnout from their job, or indeed you may have experienced it yourself.
In the end, by understaffing and piling on more and more work onto their tech workers, managers are stealing not just time from their employees, but their health too.
I personally realized far too late in my career that I'd wasted vast amounts of time working late to meet arbitrary deadlines for projects that, in the end, didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
I wish I'd pushed back and just worked my contracted hours, to spend more time with the ones I love, doing things I enjoyed, rather than forcing myself to endure further work stress.
That is much more important than getting extra money on top of a salary that is already well above the average earner, in my opinion. Though more and larger pay increases would have welcome too, of course.