There are plenty of ways of fixing that using compression, saturation, and loudness maximizers. So really this means that other songs are just perceptually louder.
Usually a song hits a limiter with a ceiling of 0.
Now really if you think of it, all tracks when mastered are the same volume, even yours. Don't worry about it not being loud enough when you're finished. Before a master can really polish and improve your song, you need a mix that will work well being mastered. If you're making anything like trance, house, heavy rock, metal, or modern pop, you might want to mix to -8. For electronica it means that it has a good dynamic range but tops out at -1dB. For trance that means that it sits at about -1dB but sounds like about +5dB. Once I have everything the way I want it, I'll raise the gain to more 'competitive' levels. Since I've given it so much headroom from the start, it very rarely gets anywhere near 0.
When doing the final mix, I'll allow it to go above the limit but nowhere near clipping. I don't worry about it being too quiet, I just turn up my headphones/monitors. I'll keep an eye on the mix while tracking and, if anything goes above the -8 or -12 limit, I'll bring all the channels down until everything is below the limit. The way I do it is to make sure that right from the start I'm mixing at between -8dB and -12dB depending on the genre: -8 dB for trance and -12dB for electronica where I want more dynamic range.
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