Why do companies pay so much for computer programmers? Because on average they make a massive net profit per programmer, that's why. There aren't many other fie

Why do companies pay so much for computer programmers? Because on average they make a massive net profit per programmer, that's why. There aren't many other fields where one person can increase productivity by orders of magnitude. When was the last time a clever doctor reduced the number of nurses required to handle a fixed number of patients by a factor of a hundred? Good developers do this routinely!