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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is five years after graduation. Further out it is the doctors who are making bank.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm[/quote]
Doctors (and lawyers) need more advanced education, which means spending more money on education in order to make those big bucks.

Engineers don't need to do that in order to make big bucks.
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Most engineers make medium-sized bucks at best, the floor is higher and the ceiling generally lower.  Medicine has a higher floor and ceiling (much higher for a few outliers).  Lawyers have a lower floor but a much higher ceiling.  I have a number of peers from law school making 8 figures.    [/quote]

Jeff Bezos, Elon MusK, Zerkuburg, Bill Gates, Zensen Huang, etc. are all engineer stem types.  ceilings are way much higher in Tech [/quote]

Those are very few compared to the number of big law partners and plastic surgeons and hedge fund managers making millions.  Sure--those techhies are making billions---but not as many making millions like the other professions I listed.[/quote]

There actually aren't that many BigLaw partners in their entirety.  Maybe 20,000 - 30,000 people in the entire US?  That is probably generous as I am including non-equity partners in this number.

Most hedge fund people have STEM backgrounds, so hard to really include hedge funds in this mix as you are likely studying one of the professions mentioned in this thread.

This whole thread is on median incomes, not what any outliers can make.  The median income for lawyers across this country is $135,740.  The median income for doctors is $223,410 though the BLS has statistics for many different kinds of physicians.

It is comical if you think there aren't more than 30,000 people working in tech who aren't making huge $$$s, whether in senior positions at tech companies or working for start-ups that became successes and their options are worth millions.[/quote]

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