Comment Re:follow the money (Score 1) 757
I find this interesting, considering that, at least according to the first couple sites I found on a google search, the median salary for computer science graduates is higher than that for finance. Now, there are a few higher paying jobs in finance - but they aren't exactly easy to get. *Most* people with that degree aren't working at a major position on wall street, just like most people with a CS degree aren't founding google.
This is exactly true. People look at the average salary of a Goldman Sachs employee and then the average salary of computer scientists and try to compare the two. That is wrong because the people at Goldman Sachs are in a very unique position. Most people with a finance degree are out there scraping a living trying to help mom and pop businesses with their taxes. You can't look at the financing outliers and then pretend that they are the mean or the median.
The truth is that financing has a higher earning potential. The range of salaries is much closer to the median for engineers than for finance. When the finance people get involved in multi-billion dollar deals, then they can earn huge amounts of money. But those deals are rare and highly sought after and so most finance folks don't get anywhere close to that level.