My research makes it look like the variability in "traditional" engineering salaries is much smaller than that of, say, software engineering positions. So for example, the median starting salary for Stanford mech e. undergraduates is $74,483, just modestly above the nationwide average of 66,890, Stanford comp sci majors make a median of 93,850 (based on whichever year's data I googled), far above the nationwide average. It seems to me that the top software engineers make a lot more money than the top traditional engineers, who barely make any more than a mediocre one. Is this an accurate statement?
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