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I'm willing to concede the highest paid engineers are almost by definition doing their opportunity costs math.

I'm willing to also bet that most people do not do a lot of opportunity costs math.

But as your example points out, like mine, maybe this whole idea of top paid engineers not getting paid, or even taking those jobs isn't a thing as much as we might imagine.

"Uber ... but for walking your cat" might offer far less than 220k, but they also don't need that guy might be offering more lateral move type people / money.