[blackrock]

The problem with comparing doctors to techs, is that while a senior software developer may make as much as a doctor’s salary (from 10 years ago), instead, the doctor’s salary (of today) has easily kept up with inflation.

An Anesthesiologist makes over $250,000 annually. Try making that as a senior tech.

A Physician’s Assistant makes over $170,000 annually. Easily beating an average senior software engineer. And they’re not even medical doctors.

Nurses make over $125,000 easily, especially with their mandatory overtime schedules baked into their union agreement.

And here’s the kicker: because women make up a larger share of medical professionals, then you have a situation where doctors end up marrying other doctors or nurses. Which is good for them, but guess what they do? They buy up the expensive houses. And then they buy their second or third houses, thus pricing normal people out of that also.

[mywittyname]

> Nurses make over $125,000 easily

Maybe in California, but most of the US is not union and most nurses do not make anywhere close to this. $30-40/hr is much more typical. That salary is far about the top 10% of nursing salaries (which is $106k).

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm

[Ancalagon]

Where are you getting these numbers? I have a number of PA and Nurse friends and NONE of them make that kind of money.

[blackrock]

Where do you live, and how much do they make?