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Software engineer's salary is nothing compared to doctors, lawyers and financial traders who enjoy protections from their organizations and a reputation of "bei
by 31reasons 13y ago
Software engineer's salary is nothing compared to doctors, lawyers and financial traders who enjoy protections from their organizations and a reputation of "being just expensive".
- stephencanon 13y agoLawyers and financial traders, maybe. Doctors, not so much (at least in the US). The NRMP is a far more effective wage-fixing cabal than anything anyone in silicon valley could ever dream up, and it's 100% legal.
- minwcnt5 13y agoIn the valley I think I'd rather be a software engineer than a doctor or lawyer if I wanted to maximize my expected career earnings.
- 31reasons 13y agoI should point out that your Expected career earnings has nothing to do with your profession and everything to do with what you actually do.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Software engineer's salary is nothing compared to doctors, lawyers and financial traders who enjoy protections from their organizations and a reputation of "being just expensive". Not really all that true, for the professions as a whole, except for medical doctors, who are far above any of the others. Per the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook [1], 2012 Median salaries for various professions: Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents: $71,720 Software developers: $93,350 Lawyers: $113,530 Physicians & Surgeons: >$187,200 [1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ http://www.bls.gov/ooh/