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Artists can be hugely variable when it comes to pay. One of my friends makes a good chunk off his painting, but most of the proceeds go to charity. By day, he works in business. Theater can be the same. I've been paid $100 a day for one gig and $1.50 an hour for another. I'd put artists in-between "just right" and "underpaid."
I'm glad you put doctors and vets low. A lot of people don't understand that $200-300,000+ loans destroy your take home pay.
Just about right
Doctors
Accountants
Teachers
Physical Therapists
College professors
Overpaid
Finance/banking
IT
Executives
Engineers make your list of underpaid? Amazing. I see job listings all the time for engineering jobs that pay $125,000 and up. Is that not the kind of money that you need to live on? My wife's cousin makes around $200,000 as an Engineer. She went on to get her Masters
Salaries for engineers vary wildly. Mostly because the term "engineer" covers so many different types of jobs.
If you work for a defense contractor or oil company, you can make a lot of money. Engineers at smaller companies doing civil engineering, building design, etc will more often make average or underpaid salaries (for what they do).
You put engineer on your list of underpaid? I'm an engineer by trade, as are many of my friends and former classmates and colleagues. By ourselves (not including spousal income), we are in the top 10% of household incomes, and most of us are 27-35. Might need to post your reasoning, granted there is a range depending on type of engineer.
Engineers make your list of underpaid? Amazing. I see job listings all the time for engineering jobs that pay $125,000 and up. Is that not the kind of money that you need to live on? My wife's cousin makes around $200,000 as an Engineer. She went on to get her Masters
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You put engineer on your list of underpaid? I'm an engineer by trade, as are many of my friends and former classmates and colleagues. By ourselves (not including spousal income), we are in the top 10% of household incomes, and most of us are 27-35. Might need to post your reasoning, granted there is a range depending on type of engineer.
I am an engineer. I've worked with and know Environmental, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineers, most with Masters degrees or higher. Engineers don't typically break 6 figures until much later in their careers. I don't think they are vastly underpaid, but underpaid, nonetheless. Look at the average salaries on Glassdoor. If you break it and you're 27, you're at outlier.
'Engineers' who work in IT and for Startups are a different animal.
I think jobs where it is necessary to complete a lot of competitive schooling should be rewarded. For instance, vets should make more. It's competitive, expensive schooling. Jobs that are difficult where you have to perform hard physical labor, like manual laborers. Skilled jobs should be paid more. Artists and musicians. You can't train to do that in a 6 month program. It takes years upon years of you own motivation to be good.
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