I recently interview a kid 1 year out of college with 6 months experience as a web designer (his degree was in Business Information Systems - we called those computer science lite). After a few tech questions it was obvious he didn’t know anything about actual software design. For grins as I ended the interview I asked his salary expectations. He said around $85,000 without a grin.
My oldest son decided to major in Computer Science. Hard worker, but doesn’t have the patience or willingness to sacrifice the time to actually go to school. He’s taken some CS courses (essentially 1 year of college), now working full-time at 50k doing programming. Wish he would finish - fear his growth potential will be limited.