[nkrisc]

Most doctors and nurses are not overpaid.

Certain specialities probably are overpaid (orthopedics), but others like pediatricians or general practitioners usually aren’t.

And nurses!? From the nurses I know they are underpaid for what they deal with.

The ones making loads of many are willing to travel around the country and uproot their life once or more every year. Not exactly a lifestyle without its drawbacks.

[wisty]

Everyone is gonna say nurses are underpaid. It's a caring, female dominated profession, it's a motherlove sentiment. And they are not paid as well as doctors.

Yeah, most pink / blue collar workers in the US are badly underpaid, but IIRC ones in the health sector are some of the best off, relative to medium salaries.

Compare teachers and nurses. In most countries they make about the same AFAIK (and I'd say nurses do deserve more, telling a parent Billy did badly on a math test has got to be easier than explaining a bad medical test). But in the US it's about 75k vs 95k. There's a huge premium for working in health in the USA, EVEN in the underpaid blue collar end.

Doctors make out even better in the US, and the c suite in health can have salaries that are just insane.

[nkrisc]

I don’t dispute this, but I also don’t think it matters. An underpaid profession being paid more then a severely underpaid profession doesn’t make the former overpaid.