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Originally Posted by MattyC
I'm not suggesting there's no connection. People who work high-demand jobs that require significant skill certainly earn the right to have more than someone who does not. But the difference isn't in the 100s or 1000s of times.
As for the relatively few WANT to do said job, I call BS on that. While there are some jobs that pay better because the job is less desirable (working up north in AB for instance, or plumbers), most undesirable jobs do not. Garbage men, fast food workers, janitors, etc... No one wants those jobs, and the people doing them are not paid premiums because of it.
Conversely, people that work high demand jobs that require significant skill don't necessarily get paid more than those who don't. And the idea of what a significant skill is is also up to interpretation. Someone who works with placing foster children and dealing with domestic abuse issues and what not, IMO, requires interpersonal skills that are non-existent in a lot of people. Those workers went through the same amount of time to get a 4 year degree as an engineering student. So why are their average salaries so different? The market is what is making up a large portion of that difference.
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Except the Engineering students went through 4 years of hell with max course loads and 50% drop out because they can't do it. Lets stop pretending 4 year degrees are all equal because of duration.
Typically people are paid higher because they possess skills and or knowledge that isn't common in the general public. Obviously some salaries that exist are obscene, but there are so few that its the exception not the rule.