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You're certainly not the first person to think of this, you need to be careful with that though or you get wage suppression and price fixing for work:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-ban...

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There are other solutions for this, of course. Collective bargaining comes to mind: if I negotiate a 10% increase in wages just because I'm good at negotiating (not because I'm objectively a 1.1x programmer in a way my union agrees with), it's a 10% increase for everyone.

There's also another solution: salary transparency. If you believe in markets, you'd agree that a critical element of them working properly is an abundance of information.

Umm...why do I need to be careful of the thought? I questioned if it was a reason for the disparity, not that I agreed with it. Secondly, your article seems to mention Ellen agreed with my question

Yes, and Ellen responded by banning salary negotiation. Which seems to me like a thinly veiled way of strong arming people into being paid sub par wages for their work.

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