Tech salaries are a direct result of basic supply/demand. The available supply of workers and the demand for a job are, to a certain extent, independent from how "vital and stressful" the job is.

The only bubble that might pop is an America first hiring mindset which constricts the supply. If this were to change I would expect tech salaries in America to go lower. Then again, this is not that hard to do, most large tech companies already have major offshore dev teams. There are clearly reasons why companies don't move more of their spend offshore.

I don't mean bubble as in pop. I mean bubble as in disconnected and floating in their own world.

Maybe the problem is not that tech is overpaid.

Maybe the problem is that those other guys as vital and stressful are not being paid enough?

> Maybe the problem is that those other guys as vital and stressful are not being paid enough?

One possible reason for this is that in software the "means of production" is much more accessible, so it's easier for a group of developerss to go it alone than it is in many other professions. When tech salaries are compared to "small business owners" in general, it doesn't seem so out of whack.

I'm not going to say people don't also have stressful and difficult jobs while making less. But I will say that I was paid what I was paid because the employer and I negotiated, and determined that my salary was mutually financially beneficial.

Software engineering is a bubble like sports is a bubble