There is a simple solution to the salary problem... Make salaries public. “You can’t make private firms publish salary data,” you may say. True, but local, state, and the federal government can say that any business that does business with them must publish all salaries. The only way to make wages fair is to expose them to the light of day.
I suspect that any medium-large company would simply spin off a tiny firm that solely works with the government.
They could then contract out as much as possible, including some of the development, back to the parent company.
The net effect would be that you have a handful of project manager salaries in the public eye at the cost of an additional step in the procurement process.
Salaries are public in Finland. Fines are based on your salary, which is how it should be. Making a lot of money affords you many things. Getting out of feeling the pain of wrongdoing should not be one of them. Just one of the many benefits of public salary data.
