alt Hacker NewsEngineers are awful at advocating for themselves, and that’s why they study and work twice as hard as lawyers and finance, have less perks (travel, food, cars, private offices) yet they get paid half as much.
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recursivedoubts • today at 4:54 AM
Most engineers who advocate for themselves would simply be fired. Job hopping was the way to get your salary up fast previously.
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The majority of people in finance are working in low paid back office or retail roles. Less than an engineer on average. You only hear about the outliers.
These finance jobs are low paid because they're not that skilled and many people can do them. Same basic reason as why fast food temp worker is low paid.