[lelanthran]

> Medicine has been more poorly paid than FAANG software engineering in the last two places I've lived (South Africa, Australia)

Interesting. I'm in South Africa, right now. The largest offer for a senior C# dev *right now* on www.pnet.co.za is R960k/a.

Twelve years ago, the GP that I was dating, who worked in a *state hospital* (i.e. not making as much as she could have in private practice) was making more than that.

I don't believe that doctors' salaries over the last 12 years have effectively been lowered. OTOH, if you know of places where they are offering more than R1.8m/a for senior developers, then by all means give me their contact details.

[nostrebored]

Happy to refer you to AWS! I was making over 1m rand (TC) as a mid level non dev position. I had friends in development making above the number you're talking.