Coding and Meetings

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.