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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happens at my company in a number of scenarios: 
-you're supervising the work of an SME with in-demand skills, ie data science or AI. If you have "people skills" and an MBA, then yes, you'll probably make less than your most senior tech staff. 
-a number of your staff have been here for 20+ years and are at a lower rank than you, but have 20 years of annual increases. Those add up. Don't let it bother you. You have growth potential and they're probably going to retire from that exact position.

When that's not the case, then I absolutely would inquire as to why your comp is less than that of similarly tenured & skilled, but lower ranked, staff. [/quote]

This is my experience.  I am "managed" by someone without my technical education.  She does not need to understand what I understand.  I was offered her position before she was hired, but explained the  the very senior manager that I am better suited to focusing on the Physics (which I understand) than people/management (which I don't).  My manager agreed, and we hired someone who out make considerably less than me, is less educated, and is responsible to ensure the corporate data calls are addressed and Perf Reviews are done etc.  If I was the manager, I would probably blow off the data calls, and would find performance reviews to be a waste of time.

I do focus on the customer, not the company.  What I mean, is the customer comes to me for expert advice, and hired my company/team because they had confidence that the product would work if I am the chief scientist.  [/quote]

I wish this happened more. So many managers are promoted based on technical skill and not managerial potential. It's why we have so many shitty bosses out there.

And I would argue that a manager who isn't technically educated but could still smoothly manage a group of SMEs would be the most valuable worker of all...[/quote]

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