Pretty simple. It pisses me off that town guards, who are standing round doing nothing most of the time, scale with my level while my follower, who goes through doungeons & carves a path through enemies stays at level 6.

Why?

WHY?

Grr. Give me console commands on my xbox or buy me a new pc! Haha.

Edit
According to UESP Wiki "A follower's stats are determined based on the level the player is at when he or she first enters the zone that the follower is in. Once generated, the follower's stats do not increase at all. "

My follower is the same level as i am...

:bolt:

Level increase but all other stats remain same with exception of few followers who scale with player. It is probably bug. Given experience with similar problem in Fallout, do not expect it to be fixed soon.

If you are on PC, dismiss your follower, then enter console, click on him (so console displays his ID) and type "disable". Exit console and follower should disappear. Open console again and type "enable". Follower will appear. Tell him to follow you again. His stats will be scaled properly. This works for me.

There is problem that each time you dismiss/rehire follower, his default equipment (which you can not see) is duplicated. If his default equipment is set of steel armour, he will quickly run out of caring capacity.

You can use console command "removeallitems" on follower to get rid of his inventory (do not forget to take away normal items you gave him, else you will loose them. Only hidden default equipment is duplicated).

For those without PC and benefit of console, all Thief quild followers are reported to scale properly.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/9245-Critical-Miss-Skyrim-Tales

If you want to know what stats your followers have, open console, click on follower (or any NPC) and type:

getlevel
getav health
getav stamina
getav marksman
getav onehanded
getav twohanded
getav block
getav heavyarmor
getav lightarmor
getav sneak

...and so on with other stats

You can write it in to txt file, place it in to main Skyrim directory (where exe is located) and then in game just type: bat "filename" to make it easier (without quotes). Use PgUp/PgDn to scroll console.