[dougmwne]

All we can do is to tell you that right now, salaries are much higher in software. There’s no guarantee that will be true for the next 40 years, but it is true now. The US is home to many of the world’s largest software companies and manufacturing is largely done overseas.

The difficulty of a job and the amount of education and smarts it requires is unrelated to the pay. Pay is just a function of the supply and demand for the talent and how much value the role can create for a business.

Sure, pay could change in the future but software salaries have a long way to fall before they are as low as mech e salaries.