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Doctors and lawyers aren’t elite though. They are solidly middle class.

• ketzo 5y ago
  In SF/NYC/LA, maybe. In any city with less than a million people, they are much more frequently upper-middle to upper class. Additionally, despite often being mentioned in the same breath/status, doctors and lawyers follow very different distributions of compensation. Attorney pay is shockingly bimodal: the ambulance chaser firm advertising on the back of the city bus is paying first-year associates <60k, if that, then there’s a huge gap, and then more prestigious law firms can offer 200k+, even in cities like Nashville, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, etc.
  • pkaye 5y ago
    A while back I was curious to see what the 10 most expensive houses in my bay area (east bay) city were. They were all up on the hills of course. With some more search I found out the owners and what they do and 9 out of 10 were doctors and one was a CEO of a company.