>Yet, sales people get commissions. And they usually have lower salaries because of this. Many "eat what they kill" and if they don't sell they don't make mone

>Yet, sales people get commissions. And they usually have lower salaries because of this. Many "eat what they kill" and if they don't sell they don't make money. > Executives get bonuses when the quarter is good Everyone in the company I work for gets bonuses commensurate with how well the company does, even the engineers. You just listed a very, very small part of every company. Other than sales people and high level execs, no one else has their compensation tied by a significant extent to their productivity. The rest, the accountants, financial analysts, business analysts, strategy analysts, marketers, billing analysts, researchers, designers, managers, etc. all are in the same boats as the engineers. >But Engineers, who actually do the f'ing work Construction workers actually "do the f'ing work" as well and they aren't compensated extremely well because although it is a very hard job there are many people who can do the job. There are also many competent engineers who can probably do your job as well, lowering your salary. I work in finance, and there are even more people who can do my job well than there are engineers who can do your job well, thus I am not paid like an engineer. This is how the labor market works.