A doctors and lawyers output is generally linear. They can meet with X amount of people/clients in a day. But they’re highly valued and in demand and rightly compensated for it. An engineer can automate a system, save or earn your company tens of millions, and get a 50k bonus for it. An engineers output is exponential and engineers are in demand.
A really good lawyer can make a below average person into a multi-millionaire for spilling coffee on themself.
Of course they’re not undervalued. An engineer CAN do the things you said, but how often do they? From what I can tell in here the vast majority of engineers aren’t out there providing millions in value a year, they’re tweaking products slightly over time. And you couldn’t even do it alone, you need PMs, designers, other engineers, ect. So if you’re out there doing millions in value a year by yourself, then yeah you deserve more, but I’m willing to bet you and most engineers don’t unless they built a startup MVP or something.
Average google engineer provides 2M in revenue for the company per year. That’s again average. I’ve read Apples average is >1M per engineer per year profit. It astounds me people don’t understand how scaling works. Bits are cheap to reproduce.
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A doctor can save an engineer's life. A lawyer can help you meet the right parameters so as to not bankrupt your business or put an engineer behind bars. Basically, the output is not linear for any of those professions. Every person only has the ability to meet x number of tasks in a day. That's how time works. The reality is the grunt workers are underpaid and executives overpaid. Figure out where you are at on that scale and that's the answer.
Engineers automate tasks. A few amount of engineers will replacing 3 million trucking jobs due to automation. Can a doctor or lawyer have that kind of reach?
Well, if the engineer is in jail or dead, they can't do that. Unless it's just a general task any engineer could do. If so, then why should they be paid any higher?