> most specialties will earn less than software engineers Nah. The average salary of a software engineer is about $104k per year (remember, <10% of IT people w

> most specialties will earn less than software engineers Nah. The average salary of a software engineer is about $104k per year (remember, <10% of IT people work at FAANGs). The average earnings of doctors according to Medscape is around $290k, and even primary care doctors earn $237k per year on average. [1] > Only [1/10th of docs] will have a chance at out earning someone at FAANG. And FAANG is a similarly small highly-paid fraction of the software workforce as well, so it is comparing like-for-like again. And average pay for those medical specialties according to [1] is $350k to $500k per year, which I bet beats the average pay of even FAANG individual contributors pretty handsomely... [1]https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overview-6011286 https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overvie...