Nearly half (47%) work for firms with less than 100 employees, and 30% work for midsize firms, according to the research by the compensation data and software provider.

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There are many talented developers, for example, who are happy to invest countless hours with no cash compensation to develop open source software such as the Firefox browser or the Linux operating system because it gives them satisfaction and a chance to show off their coding chops to the broader community of developers.

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Narayana Murthy, the chairman of Infosys, an Indian software company, can teach many CEOs something about transparency of compensation (see page 36).

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