[avg_freeper]

Engineering pay for the most part is terrible. Engineering, especially aerospace engineering, is one of the most difficult, technically challenging,time consuming professions there are.
But the pay is substantially less than other professional occupations like doctor or lawyer.
Up the pay and you'll have no problem attracting engineers.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Interesting point.

I guess American doctors will be the next to go.

That leaves a glut of lawyers.

[Will88]

But the pay is substantially less than other professional occupations like doctor or lawyer.

The educational requirements for engineers to enter that profession is nowhere near that of doctors and even lawyers. An engineer can begin working after four years of college; lawyers seven and doctors eight plus various lengths of time in residency.

Those aren't really comparable.