I don't believe those relative wages are going to hold. I got into software engineering when it was a high-5-figure to low-6-figure job. At the time, conventi

I don't believe those relative wages are going to hold. I got into software engineering when it was a high-5-figure to low-6-figure job. At the time, conventional wisdom was that the money was in finance, law, or medicine. Medicine has held up well, but wages in finance and law have fallen well below what software engineers make. Hell, lawyers frequently make less than plumbers do now, hence this joke: https://unijokes.com/joke-929/ https://unijokes.com/joke-929/