Second that. But those engineers are not paid anywhere as much as any doctor and there is no artificial limit on engineer supply.

Yes - but they start accumulating wealth in their early 20s. That gives them at 10+ year head start on the average physician who finishes paying off their debts at ~35.

However, few mediocre software engineers make 200k/yr. Most mediocre doctors do make >200k/yr.

Software engineers aren't $200k+ in debt at 32 either.

If you are an average salaried software engineer, you can accumulate more wealth than a doctor if you invest at recommended rates. The break even point is somewhere around 60-65 years of age.

Really, I'm curious care to share your calculations? What salaries are you using? What about cost of living?

A doctor can work in any city in the world, an engineers can work in less than 10 cities.

What a ludicrous statement. Pretty much any mid-size to large city has jobs for software engineers.

Not if you want to make $200k.

Maybe I should have said "guaranteed employment for life" instead of just work.

Irrelevant of the salary, most medium cities will only have a handful of tech roles available, at best. It's super hard to find and hold a job.

It's more difficult to gain admission to veterinarian school than medical school (in America).

Veterinarians pay about the same for their schooling (but they don't really have residencies) and vets make ~70k-80k/yr.

If we think of a job's salary as a function of the talents used by the job and the cost of admission to the job, it's unclear why doctors and vets should earn substantially different amounts of money.

But I agree that it's easier to accumulate wealth as a non-doctor than a doctor. Just treat the first couple years of your career like medical school and it shouldn't be too hard to crack 6 figures - if you live modestly outside a megaopolis, you can save 40k/yr and get a six figure headstart over a doctor.

What's your cross-industry metric for defining "mediocre"?