I think older employees are looked at as slow and feeble, which 99 percent is not true. Not one that will be promoted and then retire, or something in that nature. Along with the benefit of younger workers like myself, we have more of the ability to learn, adapt, and achieve new things and keep pace with the ever-growing technology industry. In actuality, they work for less, are more mobile, and can be 'influenced' more easily. I see this happen frequently.
Younger workers come into the work force knowing the latest technologies that are in high demand.
Younger workers are more apt to accept shorter assignments offering more pay with fewer benefits, a prime explanation for the proliferation of recruiters in the tech field. Click here to see some advice others have gotten. Management also knows that age discrimination is rampant. They know that older workers have fewer chances to get hired and are not likely to leave over pay issues. Therefore they have no reservations about blatantly overpaying younger 'talent' knowing most older workers will put up with the injustice rather than be unemployed.