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You cherry-picked two of the most overpaid union jobs.

Cherry picking aside, minimum wage in CA is $10.50, or about $21,000/yr with the (very large) assumption of 40 hour weeks.

What is the crane operator on-job mortality rate compared with a software engineer?

Why limit yourself to on-job?

You might be 1% likely to die working software, but 20% more likely to lose 1 year of life due to inactivity. Different people might choose differently.