My political views are somewhat out of the norm for this site (even on immigration), so I'll restrain myself and just point out: if the amount the average IT worker was payed went up, that would increase the income disparity, not decrease it. The average IT wage is already higher than the average wage. So the real issue here isn't "income disparity will increase" - the real issue is "dey terk er jerbs!" A message that meshes quite nicely with the title.