Over the past decade more and more devs have been out-earning surgeons and white-shoe lawyers. The tech salaries of today feel like the i-banking salaries of the early 2000s. It’s not just the c-suite that’s been earning crazy money.
> more and more devs have been out-earning surgeons and white-shoe lawyers
That's not abnormal.
There's only so many surgeries a man can perform, and so many cases a lawyer can argue. But software scales differently. Good luck performing surgery on three different continents at the same time.
Yeah, but I have little interest in pointing a finger at developers for inflated salaries while there's the Sundar Pichai crowd being paid north of $200 million a year.
A mediocre developer can be a drag on a company or just keep the lights on. A mediocre CEO gets paid enough to fund an overpaid developer at $400K a year for... oh, about 560 years.
The damage that a mediocre (or worse) C-suiter or VP does to a company is a lot worse than the mediocre developer (and, in fact, there's a straight line to overstaffing/overpaying and the "leadership") will ever do.
As long as folks are calling out other workers as overpaid and neglecting the execs, the industry is going to continue to get worse.
A kid was stabbed to death on a bus last week. A lawyer will play a major role in whether his killer goes to jail.
People are evicted, set free, imprisoned, and suffer serious economic setbacks (or not) based on lawyers. This completely ignores any knock-on effect of jail time in a persons life.
What on Earth could you possibly do that would be more impactful to society?
