This is how the first thread should have been resolved. Great answer and I really hope both sides benefit from the following conversations.

Which is also a reason the thread should have been killed. If posting here works for customer service, this turns into a different kind of forum.

If "customer service" needs to be elevated to this level, something is severely wrong.

I'm assuming DrChrono is in PST. The previous thread may have been killed before the CEO even woke up.

Thank you for clearing that to me :)

Why exactly Bulgaria? :>

I was reading about Jehrico and Bulgaria on Wikipedia right before I posted this. Probably should have put the 'Samson Option' in there too, just to cover all the bases. And the other flu virii strains are keyboard-punching.

Great design and it could be really useful in some cases. How did you get the idea behind this? :)

It's just something we wanted to use, so we made it ;)

Two ideas for now : Questions and Answers site and simple CRM for contacts + notes on each contact . Anything else? :)

Supply & Demand

There is a lot of friction in the employment market, and market participants are a long long way from rational actors, so labour arbitrage does not really work like it should, and supply & demand economics only really applies in extremis, over extended periods time.

As a result, price discovery in the employment market is extremely inefficient - and tends to be set using cultural and cognitive biases; perceived value; and so on, rather than with rational market considerations.

Many employers simply follow the herd when setting salaries - offering the median of what everybody else in the marketplace offers - or they will set a salary that is in alignment with their cultural preconceptions of "value".

On the other side of the fence, it is rare to find a developer who will negotiate for a higher salary, or reject a job offer choosing instead to wait for a better role to become available, a factor that tends to reduce the effective "liquidity" of the jobs market.

So, it is entirely plausible that salaries spend a long time stuck far far away from the equilibrium point that they would reach if supply/demand economics really did rule the jobs market.