To start, you may be right, but when if they get competent, it pays OK. Experience, and work ethic do make a difference. We had a lady working here that had no experience, but learned really fast. After a year or two she was making the same wage as me, but she couldn't take the stress of covering for the incompetent kids she had to work with. She went back to school to complete her MBA. Now it's just two of us trying to keep up, with little help from the new guys.