[DManA]

Perfect response to this article.

Why oh why can’t we find PHD physicists to fill our $50,000 job.

[Cronos]

There are a lot of skilled workers who have been lured out of the not-very-well-paid STEM occupations to work in high finance and elsewhere, and he suggests that an increase in wages would bring many back into STEM activities.2

Tell me about it -- but the money in STEM will never match high-finance and it was way out of level in the early 2000s when I joined the workforce

Guys I knew who did an MBA went into Goldman and were earning multiples of what I was earning in IT -- and I was earning much more than my classmates were earning in mech jobs.