Commensurate With Ability

I posted a few job listings last week. For salary, I entered "commensurate with ability" instead of the usual "commensurate with experience." I would rather pay more for the less experienced candidate who can produce quality work over the industry veteran who has been wasting away for decades. There must be a study out there that seeks to identify the experience inflection point for software developers. My bet is that it's somewhere between 5 and 8 years. Sadly, I'm way past that number.