The key difference is those fields have pretty clear and strict breakdowns of what different people will be doing. Medicine is a great example. Nurses have 4 d

The key difference is those fields have pretty clear and strict breakdowns of what different people will be doing. Medicine is a great example. Nurses have 4 different levels that vary from a boot camp equivalent of training (CNA) to requiring an advanced masters degree. (advanced practice registered nurse). Doctors have specific specialities that take more or less time to earn and pay different amounts. Electrical engineering has Electricians (and even in Electricians, you have a breakdown of apprentices, journeymen and masters) but it also has Electrical Engineers. Biology has lab assistants and lab technicians, it also had people with Doctorates working a lab. Theres also levels of certification and training that depends on if you are doing Forensics, medicine, research et cetra. Looking at computer science. It's all just engineers/developers. A company need something built and finds out they really needed someone with a bootcamp level of training and not the Masters Degree in Computer Science. But they have one "Software Engineer" track at their company and they pay them both the same. The guy/girl is a wizard at SQL optimization gets written up because they get moved to a team that requires them to grind out React code. Some places do have different tracks for different types of devs, but it seems like for a lot of places they have been consolidating their roles, not creating more role diversity. The reason for that is that when your boot camp React dev finds themselves on a non happy path, they can get hard stuck and a "higher" level of dev has to intervene and help, so the company figures it makes sense to go ahead and just get the higher level of dev that can handle it when things DO come up. Isn't that the meme about Google? That lots of their devs are just doing configuration tweaks but getting huge salaries? I would imagine Google does that so when there IS a problem those people presumably are equipped to go outside their comfort zone and be able to handle it.