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In general, pay in other branches of engineering even is pretty skewed relative to at least software salaries in Big Tech and adjacent. That was not really true historically and, arguably, it's self-correcting to some degree. If CS/EE had been the obvious high salary opportunity among engineering majors when I was an undergrad, it's not like I was really that wedded to the field I went into--and indeed didn't really work as a mechanical engineer for all that long.