In the real world, programmers and engineers are only a relatively small cohort of the people involved in making something that can be sold. There are 10x more

In the real world, programmers and engineers are only a relatively small cohort of the people involved in making something that can be sold. There are 10x more people handling procurement, manufacturing, testing, and a host of other activities. They can't all make 350k and it doesn't stand to reason that the design side should get a disproportionate share.