[h43k3r]

What a great comment. Thanks for writing this out.

One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual engineers outputs.

One thing where Software Engineers differ from a lot of others is asymmetric input and output. A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily. This is possible but difficult to do in other engineering fields like Construction, Hardware etc.

[qirpi]

> A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily.

And a single change can also lose a lot of money (maybe even millions in some cases). I don't know about other fields, but I feel like this fact heavily increases the stress factor in some positions, especially if one or few people have all the repsonsibility. (Which we can say is a management problem, but still is a fact of life for many people)