I cannot believe you guys even discuss this. We are grossly underpaid. Mainly because we are (en masse) not able to negotiate the compensation. That would be a problem if we were able to organise, so someone else would do that for us.

Look around, everything is driven by computers now. EVERTHING. Even bloody banks. And we are still not sure are we underpaid or not. En masse IT person is shy, ready to accept lower pay, and easy to accept more hours.