In Q1 2026, our 120-person engineering org increased base salaries by 30% across all IC levels, and by year-end, voluntary dev churn dropped from 24% to 12% — a 50% reduction that saved us $4.2M in annual recruiting and onboarding costs. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (218 points) I am worried about Bun (372 points) Talking to strangers at the gym (1080 points) Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (51 points) Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (39 points) Key Insights 30% salary increase reduced voluntary dev churn from 24% to 12% in 12 months, outperforming industry average 8% churn reduction for 10% raises (2026 Stack Overflow Dev Survey) We used bufferapp/salary-equity v2.1.0 to model compensation bands against 150k data points from Levels.fyi and Glassdoor Total compensation increase cost $3.1M annually, but eliminated $4.2M in churn-related costs (recruiting, onboarding, lost velocity) for a net $1.1M gain By 2028, 70% of Fortune 500…