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This is true but a SWE doesn’t need to have a high level to make a lot more money than other types of engineers.

While SWE may be a very difficult and brain intensive profession at the highest level, so are so many other technical/STEM fields. Yet curiously it's SWE that gets the big bucks, not the other fields.

Sure, I can agree with this.

The issue is that 99% of senior other engineering professions top out at like, $160-$175k at most.

You can be fresh out of college, go to an absolutely entry level junior SWE job, and make $250k.

There lies the issue.

I would also argue EE is more difficult at the highest than SWE. There's some deeply rooted knowledge, logic, and physics required, whereas in SWE... at the highest levels, you can almost pave your own damn path however you choose to and make things work.

While I’m sure there’s a fresh college grad SWE making $250K first-year somewhere, I’d be shocked if the median were over $150K and surprised if the median was $100K or more in the US.