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The national average SWE salary is barely 100K. Lots of positions in medicine, finance, and engineering hit that average.

dragonwriter 7y ago
SWE isn't a BLS tracked occupation, it's a title which loosely corresponds to a higher paid segment within the Software Developer occupation; the median salary for Software Developers is $105,590, with a Bachelor's degree identified as BLS as the entry-level education. There is no healthcare profession with the same or higher median salary that doesn't have at least as Master's degree as the entry-level education, and all healthcare occupations except Physician Assistants and Nurse Anesthetists/Midwives/Practitioners with the same or higher median salary actually have a doctoral or professional degree as the entry-level education. There are no occupations in Business & Finance with equivalent or higher median pay. (Personal Financial Advisors, at $88,890, are the highest in that area.) There are some engineering occupation with higher median pay, but only Aerospace, Computer Hardware, and Petroleum Engineers (Chemical gets close, at $104,910.) So, no, there aren't lots of occupations in those three areas paid, on average, better than SWEs (or Software Developers). There are a bunch of management occupations with higher pay, though, ironically enough, “Top Executives” is just a bit below Software Developers. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/... https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/home.htm

dragonwriter 7y ago

SWE isn't a BLS tracked occupation, it's a title which loosely corresponds to a higher paid segment within the Software Developer occupation; the median salary for Software Developers is $105,590, with a Bachelor's degree identified as BLS as the entry-level education. There is no healthcare profession with the same or higher median salary that doesn't have at least as Master's degree as the entry-level education, and all healthcare occupations except Physician Assistants and Nurse Anesthetists/Midwives/Practitioners with the same or higher median salary actually have a doctoral or professional degree as the entry-level education. There are no occupations in Business & Finance with equivalent or higher median pay. (Personal Financial Advisors, at $88,890, are the highest in that area.) There are some engineering occupation with higher median pay, but only Aerospace, Computer Hardware, and Petroleum Engineers (Chemical gets close, at $104,910.) So, no, there aren't lots of occupations in those three areas paid, on average, better than SWEs (or Software Developers). There are a bunch of management occupations with higher pay, though, ironically enough, “Top Executives” is just a bit below Software Developers. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/... https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/mobile/home.htm