Uh, maybe you mean one radiologist is interchangeable with another. And one pediatrician is interchangeable with another. Doctors are definitely less interchan

Uh, maybe you mean one radiologist is interchangeable with another. And one pediatrician is interchangeable with another. Doctors are definitely less interchangeable with each other than engineers. Top surgeons probably make more money compared to median surgeons than top engineers to median engineers. So the idea that all, say, plastic surgeons are roughly the same is ridiculous, too. Same thing goes for lawyers and marketers. Engineering isn't uniquely complex, and top engineers aren't uniquely highly compensated either. This is how it works in every industry, from sales to marketing. If anything, top engineers seem to be uniquely surprised that they get paid so well. I've never met a salesperson who thinks he's overpaid. Almost every engineer I know thinks he's overpaid. If anything, that's suppressing our wages.