There's something weird about nurse pay where it doesn't seem to raise even during large shortages of qualified nurses. I think it's artificially lowered by hospital admin, with temporary traveling nurses acting as "scabs" to avoid the normal wage increasing

The Labor Theory of Value was defeated decades ago, get with the times

I'm solving harder and harder problems for real users/customers than I was a year ago and our sales are increasing as a result.

While it depends on the market, job, and hours, but the bedside nurses I know make in the low $100k range. Typical shift structure at the hospital is three 12 hour shifts in a row and then four days off. Most of the time, they are union jobs, so they receive many benefits from collective bargaining such as increased holiday and overtime pay in the range of 1.5-2x normal rate. A nurse practitioner tends to make something in the 180-220k realm.

Again, to be clear, this is highly dependent on the market, job, and hours and one needs to understand the difference between a CNA, RN, NP, etc. However, it's a regulated typically union job that's very secure and in high demand. It probably pays more than what you expect.

Yes, they are still making that much. I am. I don't fully understand why yet but I think it is because of a few reasons:

1. We still need to keep the lights on. If things go wrong, which they still do, humans have to debug it.

2. Jevon's paradox: now the expectation is that we ship stuff faster and there is still a LOT of stuff to do, not less.

3. We are still in the very early days of this and it is too soon for corporations to make a dramatic call like laying off 80% of engineering. We just don't know how that would look like.

I want a world where teachers on average make more than software engineers. If we figure that out, everything else will be fine in the long run.

I think nurses in the Bay Area make like 200k a year

Don't you worry about salaries of any trained medical professionals:)

The effort/pay ratio never made sense though.