I make more than lawyers and doctors I know. This isn’t an absolute as there is a spectrum in all fields but just to a layperson they don’t expect to hear that I make more as a product manager and I’m only 29, so plenty of years to keep growing and increasing that salary/net worth. If you Google highest paid careers/job you never see “product manager” or “SDM”. Lastly, I have a JD, I was a lawyer, made peanuts worked long hours and make more now as a product manager. TC: 370 Base 265k EDIT: best career field had to be being a successful entrepreneur
Well done 🤷♂️
Doesn’t big law pay 300k out the gate? Granted it’s a much longer path to become a lawyer compared to SDE but lawyers aren’t exactly making peanuts either
Yeah but they really only touch the top 10, maybe top 15 law schools. Everyone else ends up in small/mid tier law firms, public defenders, or trying to make it on their own
https://www.biglawinvestor.com/biglaw-salary-scale/ Looks like 230k or so I think they work like 60-80 hrs/wk though. I think our wlb is a bit better
Not really crazy based on how much money is made for the companies writing the checks by the engineers
Try explaining that to my parents haha. Most boomer generation parents wanted their kids to be doctors or lawyers only
Not in the USA
You are at the top of end of your career. Top end lawyers makes more than you
Top lawyers are a small percentage
True, but top end tech still makes more, like Mark Zuckerberg. He's still a multi billionaire, but he's top end.
Big law is a small subset of lawyers and only a handful of law schools. Also, I’ve only been a product manager for 4 years, at 9 I expect to see those numbers as well
And Deloitte assuming tech company salaries applies to everyone isn’t right because it’s just a small subset. To get a better idea look at what BLS says is the nation wide average for software engineers. It says like $110k across all levels of experience
What’s wrong with that? Why Doctor supposed to be higher? If anything doctor’s salary needs to be lower and there needs to be more doctors to lower the healthcare costs.
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lmao you’re funny thinking healthcare costs are high due to salaries. Even if they were paid less, your premiums will still go up and costs will also go up.
Tbf I’d be fine with salaries being less polarized, so ppl aren’t forced into professions they don’t want. The last thing we need is more lawyers
Doctor, lawyer, those are something that is going to be replaced by machines soon. Believe or not.
I did my MBA with doctors who were earning their MBAs. Previously had always put doctors up on pedestals as being some of the smartest people possible. During my MBA I learned first hand that they weren't any smarter or harder working.
Yeah like Elon musk says: you can have degrees and still be an idiot. Degrees are a measure of consistency and hard work, not necessarily raw intelligence or a guarantee for success
Confounder: All the doctors you met were doing an MBA
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