FOR TWO BROADER TASKS, coding and attending meetings,
we asked respondents for more detail: namely, how much time
they spend on them. As we have consistently seen, attending
meetings correlates with salary: respondents who spend over
20 hours per week in meetings earn more than those who spend
9–20 hours, who in turn earn more than those whose spend
4–8 hours per week in meetings, and so on. This is unlikely to
be a direct causal relationship, but rather both are effects of a
shared cause (such as working in management).
As for coding, the highest earners were those who don’t code
at all, but that’s because they tended to be managers. There is
a dip in salaries among respondents who code over 20 hours
per week, but this is explained by the fact that this group
was, on average, less experienced than the rest of the sample.
Within the middle groups—those who code 1–20 hours per
week—there was not much variation in pay.
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