You see low salaries, I see more salary equality between engineers and non engineers. Most engineers don't add that much more value than other people in the company to justify earning 2x or more.
Depends I and the company secretary saved one company several million in todays terms by fixing a broken BACS feed and pissed of Jack Schofield in the process
More recently I found a bug costing >£500000 for a Major UK Job listings board.