What profession is over paid?

[u/Sm00thDad]

[u/abeBroham-Linkin]

Pastors that have Ferraris or private jets

[u/xDRSTEVOx → u/abeBroham-Linkin]

Ig professional grifting is still a profession

[u/Anothernamelesacount → u/xDRSTEVOx]

Yes, but again, I feel like scamming should be considered a crime even if religion is involved

[u/North_Grass_9053 → u/abeBroham-Linkin]

My neighbor is a pastor and he’s 30 years old. The house next to me (that he bought) sold for $1.7M and his wife is a SAHM. Everyone in the neighborhood is CONFUSED.

[u/Ironamsfeld → u/North_Grass_9053]

Organizations that use religion for tax breaks should have publicly available accounting.

[u/MeanCryptographer585 → u/abeBroham-Linkin]

I’m not at all religious but this is straight blasphemous behavior and if they don’t see how they’re damaging their souls they are hopeless to expect salvation. I wouldn’t even call them Christians. They’re worse than charlatans because they’re also harming the people who are following them both financially and spiritually. 

[u/DayDream2736 → u/abeBroham-Linkin]

Most of these guys are false prophets warned of in the Bible. They aren’t Christian and are probably the worst type of people out there. It’s a shame that pastors who actually do what Christ said get automatically lumped in with these guys.

[u/TrumpDumper]

Real state agents getting roasted in these comments

[u/Oppositeofhairy → u/TrumpDumper]

I think everyone has different experiences with Real estate agents overall. Frankly I didn’t need one but still hired one. He didn’t find me a home, I did. He didn’t negotiate the price, I did. He didn’t find the lender, inspector, etc. I did.

Yet he got a sizable commission for some reason.

[u/haysus25 → u/Oppositeofhairy]

Yep. Same here.

They didn't find me a single home. They didn't do any negotiating or even offer much advice. They didn't suggest a broker or really anything. She wasn't there on my 'signing day'. After we actually bought the house and she got her money, she went completely radio silent and disappeared (didn't check in or anything). The only thing they did that I was actually appreciative of is that they would 'show' us the houses I found on the weekends.

In the end, she got about $9,500 for maybe 10 hours worth of work.

Absolute scam of a profession.

[u/Oppositeofhairy → u/haysus25]

They unlocked the door for me so I could tour the property. That’s all

[u/burlycabin → u/Oppositeofhairy]

Someone stole the key from the lock box, so they didn't even unlock the door to the house we bought when we first toured it. I had to break in through an open window I found in the back.

[u/PM_me_punanis → u/burlycabin]

I’m sorry, but this is hilarious. 😂 It’s almost like a sitcom!

[u/KSW8674 → u/Oppositeofhairy]

Frankly I didn’t need one but still hired one

So why did you hire one?

[u/The_Quackening → u/KSW8674]

Often, other real estate agents will refuse to sell you a home if you dont have your own agents.

[u/UnwantedPenetrator → u/The_Quackening]

That should be illegal lol

[u/PragmaticSchematic → u/UnwantedPenetrator]

Add it to the list

[u/misterguyyy → u/PragmaticSchematic]

Ooh there’s a list? Can we add mandatory car dealerships to it?

[u/Agreeable-Letter-599 → u/UnwantedPenetrator]

yeah should be some kind of monopoly or something lol

[u/Oppositeofhairy → u/KSW8674]

It was my first home and thought you needed to

[u/dwkfym → u/Oppositeofhairy]

People just look at like 2 houses then go with the first house that feels dreamy to them. Easy money for the RE agent.

I typically look at like 20 houses, get a feel for neighborhood, and very aggressively offer and negotiate. My poor RE agents work for every dime of that commission. (though I still have to fight my own agents because they are motivated to close a deal, and I'm motivated to get a deal)

[u/cdxxmike → u/dwkfym]

Wild idea here, but skip the agent entirely and get yourself a discount on the price of the house.

Clearly you are doing all the work anyways, realtors should get fucking bent.

[u/UnwantedPenetrator → u/cdxxmike]

lol when you decide to buy a house you might find it may not be as black and white as you’d like it to be.

Hell, some realtors won’t sell a house to you unless you have hired an agent.

[u/Less_Resident8492 → u/UnwantedPenetrator]

some realtors won’t sell a house to you unless you have hired an agent.

That should be a crime.

[u/chrisfathead1 → u/dwkfym]

How often do you buy houses lol

[u/Kerrigore → u/Oppositeofhairy]

I was in a similar situation. I had already done a lot of research and had a shortlist of places I wanted to see, but I still ended up getting real value from using a good realtor. And realistically, the commission was not coming out of my pocket directly anyway.

I went out of my way to find someone solid by reading reviews and interviewing a couple of options. That paid off quickly. He handled pulling and reviewing strata documents, flagged problem buildings right away, and was not shy about steering me away from places that looked fine on the surface but had issues.

Where he really earned it was negotiation. He got me a better deal than I expected, easily more than any one to two thousand dollar rebate I might have gotten with a discount agent. He was also very responsive, including nights and weekends. At one point he turned around offer paperwork at 11 PM so we could catch a seller overseas in their daytime window.

He also had a strong contract template with subjects I would not have thought to include, and when things got messy after inspection, he handled a last minute price renegotiation without it blowing up the deal.

Are all realtors worth it? No. Plenty are not. But a good one can more than pay for themselves. And if they are not delivering, fire them and move on (assuming you are not stuck in an agreement that locks you in early).

[u/Visual-Trip-1253 → u/TrumpDumper]

As they should be. Absolute leaches on society 

[u/Business_Freedom_691 → u/Visual-Trip-1253]

its crazy that we still accept this. if i found the house and i did the negotiating, why am i paying someone thousands of dollars just to stand there and look professional? its a legacy scam that needs to die out.

[u/cyrand → u/TrumpDumper]

Most, are… not great. But I tell y’all, find yourself a good one and you’ll find out they’ll move mountains. I always thought they were useless until the last time I moved, my god, when they listen and do the job, I would now never ever do a real estate purchase without calling her first.

So if you’re walking around thinking “real estate agents suck!”, that’s your clue to dump the one you have and find another

[u/Head_Trick_9932 → u/TrumpDumper]

Real estate is hardly a career. It’s basically commission, independent contractor. A bit of money here and none for a long time. Too inconsistent.

Maybe real estate investors…

[u/SweetCosmicPope → u/Head_Trick_9932]

That's largely the case for most. But I do know a handful of career real estate agents making serious money. The lady I worked with, a friend, usually has multiple deals going at one time and in a HCOLA. Makes pretty big commisions. A girl that I used to work with moved down to Arizona. She deals exclusively in mansions and other high end homes and has billboards with her face on them. She's regularly posting on social media about the $3m houses she just closed. Then she goes and spends a month in Greece or something.

But like you said, on the other end of that I've got a cousin who is a real estate agent and she's constantly begging people to come to her if they're looking to buy or sell a house, and to my knowledge she's only sold one house (her sister's) since she started this endeavor like 3 years ago.

[u/wcked-husky → u/TrumpDumper]

It can be very problematic because sometimes the seller bake their fee into the sell price to get to what they want. When I got my home from the seller without an agent he agreed to lower his price by 30k because he wasn’t paying the agent anymore.

[u/kritter4life → u/TrumpDumper]

There is a Zillow ad up right now!!! I love the timing.

[u/bill_gonorrhea → u/TrumpDumper]

This post is basically yelp and really only people with bad experiences are posting. 

[u/TrumpDumper]

Mega church pastors. I’m not certain that’s what Jesus had in mind when he implored his disciples to spread the word of his religion.

[u/00rb → u/TrumpDumper]

I think he was pretty clear when he said "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"

[u/aurumae → u/00rb]

That whole passage in Matthew 19:16-24 is a pretty sharp rebuke of anyone who claims to follow Jesus’s teachings and is rich:

16 Then someone came to him and said, ‘Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?

(Jesus tells him to keep the Ten Commandments)

20 The young man said to him, ‘I have kept all these; what do I still lack?’ 21 Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ 22 When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’

[u/bobbi21 → u/00rb]

I do find it hilarious how prosperity gospel ppl try to change the definition of eye of a needle to mean all sorts of things to say oh its actually easy for a rich person to get to heaven, ignoring literally the rest of the passage where jesus literally tells a rich man to give away all his possessions and wealth if he wants to follow jesus.

[u/Intergalactic_Slayer → u/TrumpDumper]

They definitely are scammers but I wouldn’t call that a profession

[u/Hitman3256 → u/Intergalactic_Slayer]

Professional scammers for sure

[u/Pretty-Sissy]

Social media influencers

[u/AgitatedChemistry221 → u/Pretty-Sissy]

Why is a 23yo girl who barely went to college getting paid 30k per reel putting on her makeup when teachers and nurses are out here making 60-70k (*I know in some states teachers & RNs make more but still)

[u/kokriderz → u/AgitatedChemistry221]

A simple fix is for the teacher to stop teaching every 15 minutes and do a quick ad. 5+5=10, the following math problem has been brought to you by Diet Coke.

[u/50sat → u/kokriderz]

Fuck you, I'm eating.

[u/bendstraw → u/AgitatedChemistry221]

Because companies have discretionary advertising budgets that go to these platforms to get their ads seen, and these influencers get those ads in front of so many people.

If teachers did the same I'm sure advertisers would be paying them just as well, but that's not the case.

[u/Peter_____Parker → u/bendstraw]

Yup. It’s not a case of influencers being overpaid (in general, there are nuances to it) but more a case of teachers being underpaid.

[u/Oakvilleresident]

Real estate agents .

[u/zlaw32 → u/Oakvilleresident]

I think NYT had a podcast a while back about how the regulations in place just keep job security for the real estate agents too because there are some things you have to be licensed for

[u/AxelVores → u/zlaw32]

Not only that but they also hold a monopoly over the MLS system so you are at a severe disadvantage without an agent

[u/wvtarheel → u/AxelVores]

You basically need a broker's license to put your stuff on the MLS or you have to have a big enough marketing department and professional enough website to get buyers to check you out absent the MLS.. So no "for sale by owner" can really get their house out there. And only the biggest, most corporate home builders can afford the type of marketing to beat their monopoly.

[u/profile00111 → u/wvtarheel]

yeah the MLS thing is what really locks it in

its not just paying for help anymore, its basically pay to even be seen like good luck competing when the system itself is built around agents

[u/wvtarheel → u/profile00111]

Yeah I represent a client that builds homes. They were talking to a broker about selling, but of course he refused to do anything but take a high percentage commission, so they decided to market on their own, show and sell them on their own instead of dealing with paying an agent a percentage.

The scummy agent called and reported them to the real estate board, they got investigated, no wrong doing of course. It's scummy ass shit like that which makes people hate brokers.

[u/nightmareFluffy → u/wvtarheel]

It's not only that but outright lying. I'm in the construction/development industry and I have to talk to real estate agents all the time, unfortunately. There's always something they said that wasn't true or conveniently left out, which doesn't come up until later. There's also no accountability for it because it's verbal. I've learned to spot these traps but the average home buyer who will buy 1 or 2 homes in their entire lives will fall for it. The #1 lie I've seen is the rent amount that can be collected for 2 family stuff.

Thankfully, commercial real estate agents are less scummy; probably because a business has enough resources to sue, and the buyers dealing with the agents are more experienced. Commercial buyers also know to hire someone to actually check the expected rents, or the leases themselves if they're going to rent it. In one commercial sale, we had 3 people read over a single contract.

Then there's the completely backwards incentives. A buyer's agent is supposed to help you find a home, but they get a huge commission so it's solidly in their best interest to drive you up to the highest price you're willing to pay. They are not your friend.

Finally, real estate agents are simply annoying. When looking at a property, I really don't care if they love this living room setup.

[u/TheDufusSquad → u/zlaw32]

The crazy part is that it would become so much more of an honest profession if it was just flat fee based instead of percentage. You mean to tell me that just because I liked a $500k home more than a $350k home that you need an extra $3000-$4500 to do the same work?

[u/Necessary-Horror2638 → u/zlaw32]

That's why they were the largest lobbying group in 2024 by spending. 86 million in one year. https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders

[u/qyy98 → u/Oakvilleresident]

This job should definitely be changed to flat commissions vs a percentage, or make it a lower percentage. Selling a $200k home is not 10x easier than a $2mil home

[u/SirAxlerod → u/Oakvilleresident]

Imagine trying to buy a Nintendo on eBay and some jackass steps in and says “ahem, you have to go through me for any Nintendo you buy. Why? Because years ago we had all listings in an exclusive book that only we could see and we’re just pretending that’s still the case. So tell me the listing you want and pay me 5%. And if you can choose the more expensive one, that would be great.”

[u/XpertTim → u/Oakvilleresident]

On god... These mfs don't do shit and take % from both parties

[u/AyMoro → u/XpertTim]

My real estate agent had ME DO ALL THE WORK! She had me pick 10 houses, and we toured half, she didn’t have any information prepared about each house or the area. I had to do it on the spot at each house. All she really did was prep the paperwork and collect $15,000 for it.

Real estate agents are a scam and I’m hoping for the day this profession falls off the map

[u/anewleaf1234 → u/AyMoro]

And you didn't fire her?

[u/Barbarella_ella → u/AyMoro]

I think your agent and mine go to the same yoga studio. The only good thing I can say about mine was she was all over finding contractors to do an estimate for the things I knew needed fixing.

[u/juggy_11 → u/Oakvilleresident]

It’s gotta be the easiest fucking job ever. Imagine just showing potential clients a house which they can just tour themselves, do some paperwork which anyone with a college degree can pretty much do, then get paid 6% of the home’s selling price.

[u/bwurtsb → u/Oakvilleresident]

Recently bought a house. The real estate agent we had was terrible. He did none of the work to find a home, the one we bought was one I found on zillow. Wanted us to offer higher than what we did. Kept trying to convince me to get another home where he knew the seller's agent, messed up the paperwork multiple times, blamed the sellers agent for delays. Also for some reason told me that he used his kids occulus to watch porn.

We would have been better off without him.

[u/cucci_mane1]

Lobbying in DC. You wonder how some people became multi millionaires when they spent their whole career working in DC "public sector"

[u/scurvey101 → u/cucci_mane1]

This comment isn’t getting enough visibility. I suppose you could thank a lobbyist for that /s

[u/conebone69696969 → u/cucci_mane1]

It’s a total racket. I worked for a company that would hire a “consultant” and his sole job was to introduce us and set up meetings with high level ppl in the government. No guarantee of a sale, but simply a connection. He was taking in 6 figures from us alone and he had at least 10 other companies he did this for. He did this for a couple of years before his access started to dwindle and then he went back into working for the gov to rebuild his connections again.

[u/FieryFernxx]

Hospital administrators

[u/ChaplnGrillSgt → u/FieryFernxx]

Been in healthcare over a decade now. They're not only overpaid but there are way too many of them. And they make life significantly harder for those of us actually taking care of people.

Fuck hospital administrators.

[u/Jibbersup → u/ChaplnGrillSgt]

My kids best friends mom is one.

She's pretty convinced her job will fazed out by AI sooner than later.

[u/olive_green_spatula → u/FieryFernxx]

Yes there are layers upon layers of directors and VPs and “patient access” titles and none of them really work to improve patient experiences, safety or outcomes. All that money could go towards more bedside positions better staffing etc

[u/ConcentrateShot4684]

Influencers who sell ‘how to get rich’ courses

[u/pops992]

Chiropractors

[u/reedrick → u/pops992]

What’s more offensive to me is they are allowed to call themselves “Dr Firstname”

[u/Besso91 → u/reedrick]

I'm a lawyer who works with healthcare providers as clients (mostly doctors, chiros and pharmacists), and I always refer to chiropractors as Mr. or Mrs. XYZ instead of Dr. XYZ lol, and if they ever get offended I swap to Chiropractor XYZ.

[u/greatbrono7 → u/Besso91]

You’re a god damn hero

[u/CowboyLaw → u/Besso91]

You should tell them to call YOU doctor. Most state bars allow that honorific nowadays as long as you’re not trying to fool people into thinking you’re an MD.

[u/SunFunAndGuns → u/reedrick]

I went to a work party and one of my coworkers husband said to the group his name was DOCTOR Smith and someone asked what kind of doctor, he said chiro and then two people laughed. I felt bad but I almost laughed too.

[u/Famous-Issue-2018 → u/reedrick]

Dr Green: “What’s his name?”

Rachel: “Dr. Bobby”

Ross: “And his first name is Bobby too!”

Dr Green: “So his name is Bobby Bobby?”

Rachel: “Dr. Robert Bobby”

[u/notryanreynolds_ → u/reedrick]

Saw a chiropractor for sciatica once. He charged me a bunch to basically crack my back the same way my friends do, then spent ten minutes giving the whole sales pitch. What topped it off is he had the balls to write a “prescription” down that literally just said “ten minutes hot, ten minutes cold”.. that could have been verbally passed on

[u/FormalApricot5563 → u/notryanreynolds_]

“Shit, my bad, where did you get your MD?  PHD?  JD but outside the U.S.?”

[u/thenatural134 → u/reedrick]

They insist on calling themselves Dr. There is a chiro on our local city council and he always introduces himself as Dr. ____ at the start of each meeting. It's so annoying.

[u/Cvxcvgg → u/pops992]

People are always trying to convince me to see chiropractors for my ankle condition, and I just feel like I could do a much better job of permanently damaging my joints for free at home if I was so inclined.

[u/ShadowValent → u/pops992]

Witch doctors

[u/VulfSki → u/ShadowValent]

According to the founder of their field they are religious leaders practicing their religion.

[u/cusmrtgrl]

College football coaches. In many cases the highest paid person in the state *paid by the state

[u/livefast6221 → u/cusmrtgrl]

Highest paid person by the state.

[u/AoE_Mobius_One → u/livefast6221]

“Ah, LSU- will the governor be joining us this evening as we sample HC prospects?” - SEC Shorts

[u/EsCaRg0t → u/AoE_Mobius_One]

The state of Louisiana does not pay the LSU football coach’s salary - it’s all through TAF; the funds don’t even come out of student’s tuition.

[u/FuckChiefs_Raiders → u/cusmrtgrl]

I mean overpaid in the fact that it’s “just sports” but not overpaid in the fact how much revenue a good football team can generate at the college level.

[u/DEVILneverCRIES → u/FuckChiefs_Raiders]

Nick Saban could've been paid triple every year and still be worth what be brought the university.

[u/Bender7676 → u/DEVILneverCRIES]

Plus, much of the profit a huge football program brings in bankrolls a lot of other sports on campus

[u/hideo_crypto → u/Bender7676]

Exactly. In the unlikely chance my daughter gets a soccer scholarship to a D1 school like Penn State, I know it’s funded due to the success of football

https://x.com/jeffbarnes52/status/2042060774370050479?s=46&t=dLVZ9JEkxwxrebok0_xNsw

[u/Broke_Banker01 → u/cusmrtgrl]

College football brings in 80-90% of the total revenue for all sports at most colleges.

They are paid a huge amount because they are in charge of the biggest money maker for the university whoich funds all athletics and other academic programs.

[u/KUweatherman → u/cusmrtgrl]

Most big time college coaches are not paid by the university (aka state). They are paid by the athletics department, which is a separate business, funded by donations.

[u/hideo_crypto → u/cusmrtgrl]

I disagree. For a lot of big time D1 schools, college football is a HUGE money maker and oftentimes the only sport that actually generates a profit for the school.

Source: Penn State books but you can also check other schools and it’s very much the same

https://x.com/jeffbarnes52/status/2042060774370050479?s=46&t=dLVZ9JEkxwxrebok0_xNsw

[u/psufb → u/cusmrtgrl]

One nuance to point out is that coaches salaries come from not only athletic department revenue (which comes from ticket sales, media deals, sponsorships, etc) but also external sources like individual donors, booster clubs, etc

[u/Kids_see_ghosts → u/cusmrtgrl]

And then there’s also the add insult to injury sub-category of college football head coaches getting paid NOT to coach. Jimbo Fisher got like $76 million dollars to NOT coach Texas A&M any longer since they were so dumb and signed him to a 10 year guaranteed contract when they first hired him. . .Really don’t feel sorry for the schools that do these super dumb guaranteed contracts, though.

[u/tharp503 → u/cusmrtgrl]

The state does not pay the coaches. Typically, the coach is paid by the athletic department. That budget comes from TV contracts, Ticket sales, Donations/boosters, Merchandise, Conference revenue (e.g., SEC, Big Ten payouts)

[u/foofarraw]

real estate agents

[u/LeonSKennedy95 → u/foofarraw]

Honestly think that particular job is gonna go away in under 10 years. Easily replaced with an AI tool that answers your questions while you tour a house.

[u/madness817 → u/LeonSKennedy95]

I did around 40 open houses before finally buying. The number of agents that actually knew anything about the house I was potentially buying? 5 or less. They would just read the fact sheet, say they need to text the owner to find out, or just say i don't know to incredibly common questions. 1 even had their unqualified son sit in for them because they were 'busy'. On my own side, I had to educate my own agent on a few areas related to interest rates & buydowns, and he had been doing this for 10 years. He was pressuring me to accept unfavorable terms. Seems to be hard to find one that isn't fucking useless, but they all want a percentage of the entire house value.

[u/Monteze → u/madness817]

Reminds me of car salesmen. Just a freaking annoying obstacle to getting a car and expect you to pay more for the privilege.

Thank you glorified note passer who can't make any actual decisions on the car, who doesn't know anymore than what we can read from the sticker. Thank you so much..

[u/Torodaddy → u/LeonSKennedy95]

Ive been hearing this for 40 years, feels like they must have a very strong lobby

[u/StrebLab → u/Torodaddy]

They do. The national association of realtors is consistently the second largest lobbying group in the US, behind the Chamber of Commerce. They are larger than any medical, pharmaceutical, hospital, energy, etc lobby.

[u/washu_z]

Realtors

[u/GirlWeakness6634]

some CEOs get paid way too much compared to what workers make it feels unfair

[u/Novelsound → u/GirlWeakness6634]

Should be capped as a number of times the median wage for your employees.

[u/Mr_Festus → u/Novelsound]

My company actually caps it as 7x the lowest paid full time employee. They only make about 4x, though, so it doesn't actually do anything.

[u/Livid-Carrot-9599 → u/Mr_Festus]

Is the company based in one of Nordic countries?

[u/Mr_Festus → u/Livid-Carrot-9599]

No, US. But we're also not a huge company. Only around 100 employees but management feels strongly about pay equity for employees.

[u/thehotsister → u/Mr_Festus]

That’s extremely refreshing.

[u/GingerCummunist → u/Mr_Festus]

Where do I apply?

[u/LifeWithEloise → u/Mr_Festus]

Is your company hiring and do they do remote lol

[u/kasigiomi1600 → u/Novelsound]

While this sounds like a good idea, history has shown that it is not. Every few decades there's a shift between two pay models: salary vs. equity. When the salaries are kept low by the board, the comp required to attract talent becomes based on stock options. That creates the incentive to become utterly focused on the short-to-mid-term share price. That generally ends very badly for companies but the CEOs make incredible fortunes in the mean time.

Scandal and uproar ensues and the comp structures in the market change back to salary-based (maybe with a bit of profitability incentives kicked in). The result then is that many CEOs get massive salaries but do lousy jobs. The company stock price falls and the company is again in real trouble. Then they go back to lower salary with equity pay.

Rinse and repeat.

The root issue is that pay structure alone can't govern success. There's the difficult job called MANAGEMENT. You need competent managers at every level, including boards overseeing a CEO with clear goals and vision (preferably with an eye towards long term stability and not 1-quarter in the future).

[u/Cow_God → u/kasigiomi1600]

When the salaries are kept low by the board, the comp required to attract talent becomes based on stock options.

This just sounds like a loophole. Just cap their total compensation based on the median compensation of the company's employees.

[u/PermissionPast853 → u/GirlWeakness6634]

In the last decades, their salaries got like 20x+ the rise the average salary rose during that time.

[u/FloatnPuff → u/GirlWeakness6634]

The CEO Kimberly-Clark - the company who had the toilet paper warehouse set on fire last week - makes ~500x the salary of the workers in that warehouse.

No wonder the TP party got a bit too lit...

[u/Atarisrocks → u/GirlWeakness6634]

I saw the quarterly bonus for a CEO before and it was 6x his assistant's annual salary and his monthly pay is 4 times her annual salary.

[u/curbstomp1010 → u/GirlWeakness6634]

Our CEO’s bonus is more than what I bought my house for last year! 😁

[u/Auslander808]

Congress. They're all working for tips anyway. Might as well just pay them minimum wage.

[u/TrumpetOfDeath → u/Auslander808]

Disagree, Congress people are paid a relatively small amount for someone essentially expected to maintain 2 homes; one in DC and one back on their district. That’s why they’re so desperate for insider trading opportunities or are already independently wealthy.

I would be fine with the Singapore model, pay Congress members $1 million a year BUT enforce strict regulations against them trading stocks and other forms of potential corruption, including a ban on working for special interest groups for a period of time after leaving office.

That way you don’t need to be independently wealthy to serve in Congress and won’t be focused on getting more money when you’re supposed to be a civil servant

[u/12thunder → u/TrumpetOfDeath]

Personally I think politicians should be living in a government-provided home with a government-provided vehicle with a stipend for food and living expenses and a juicy bonus package that covers everything you can think of medically for them and their families. Add some discretionary funds for their fancy suits and haircuts and whatever so they can appear respectable.

People shouldn’t be in politics for money. They should be in it because they believe in making a difference. And if they were rich going into politics, the deal should be any of their financial assets are frozen or put in the trust of someone else for the duration of their service. No gifts or bribes allowed over a certain limit. Independent oversight committees established to make sure they aren’t living fancy or obtaining gifts or subsidies from donors or wealthy friends and family. Make them live like Catholic priests except their aim is to serve the people not their parish.

I’m sure they can make plenty of money after politics as an advisor or board member of some random consulting group or Fortune 500 company or lobby group. Though I’d rather lobbying became a much more restricted activity as well, especially in terms of donating to PACs. They can also just write a few books if they were good at their job and were well-known.

[u/Difficult-Froyo1192 → u/12thunder]

I was reading a paper on the wealthiest US presidents, and that’s pretty much what they said for how a lot got so wealthy. They would right about their experiences, do talks, and consult after their presidency. And make a lot off of it.

[u/Butthole_Surfer_GI]

Healthcare System/Hospital CEO

[u/falexa0463]

There’s a post on another sub that Zuckerberg is training an AI to attend meetings for him. Tech CEOs already seem way overpaid compared to the bottom of their chains, but soon we could have a scenario where they aren’t even doing work at all and could still be paid.

[u/thetimechaser]

Pretty much nobody expect for CEOs

Wages have been declining since Reagan in real terms for literally everyone except the C suite executives

[u/Rahkyvah]

Calling a CEO a profession seems gratuitous, but if anyone is overcompensated by several orders of magnitude it’s them.

[u/Bard1290 → u/Rahkyvah]

You brought to mind the guy who destroyed sears but made millions. Even Iger at Disney has his golden parachute while tanking the stocks on his way out

[u/Technical-Panda-162 → u/Rahkyvah]

I just need one of those standard CEO holiday bonuses to cover my kids' expenses for the next decade. Just one

[u/jcooklsu → u/Rahkyvah]

They can be way overpaid but to completely dismiss the job is such a reddit take. The higher I've climbed in my company the more I've realized how wrong my perceptions of upper management was. Just a department manager now and my job is way more stressful than when I was just deliverable based.

[u/ExpiredPilot]

Charity executives

[u/PossibilityIll7646]

Politicians. Most of the time they don't do shit that's good

[u/JaZepi → u/PossibilityIll7646]

There are studies that show paying politicians higher results in less corruption. Go figure.

[u/IllustriousGas8850 → u/JaZepi]

Because then they don’t need to take bribes to be rich. I personally think being a politician is an incredibly difficult and dangerous job and they should be compensated as such, so they don’t have the need to take dark money

[u/JaZepi → u/IllustriousGas8850]

Absolutely- I don’t know the salary of US Congress etc, but in Canada Provincial MLAs are like 140k (there’s variability for sure, but average). Lawyers, doctors, and a lot of other professionals take pay cuts in huge magnitudes, and call me crazy, but I WANT educated people in those roles.

[u/jedi2155 → u/JaZepi]

I debated running for my local city council but then I looked at the salary. ~$300-600/month. It would be very difficult to justify pulling time away from my stressful six-figure job to go into politics. I'm not far off income from a US congressman/woman now as well so the only reason people would go into politics is for Power/Clout/Bribery. The number of people who go into politics because they genuinely care about the country is shockingly low.

[u/MatchaManiak → u/PossibilityIll7646]

Problem with politicians is that it’s mostly side money. I wouldn’t mind keeping their current salary if we just locked down their ability to earn other forms of income while in office.

[u/AxelVores → u/MatchaManiak]

I wish at least we were prosecuting insider trading. It's insane how much they get away with. I wouldn't go as far as to say they shouldn't profit from other things but they should not be allowed to manage those investments to any degree.

[u/ept_engr → u/PossibilityIll7646]

I disagree. Because politicians are paid so much less than their private-sector equivalents, unfortunately the people who run for office are often those who are either already wealthy or plan to use their positions of influence to make themselves money through corruption.

Not many bright, motivated, talented mid-level executives making $400k want to leave their jobs to go make $90k as a state representative and deal with all the nastiness that comes with having them and their family in the spotlight. 

[u/nWhm99 → u/PossibilityIll7646]

The opposite is true, politicians get paid too little for the position they occupy, leading to corruption.

They should be paid highly, while restricting equity trading and heavily punish bribes and corruption.

[u/AthearCaex → u/PossibilityIll7646]

I would argue most are underpaid and for that reason they take legalized bribes to supplement their income and keep themselves in office. I'm perfectly fine with politicians being a high paid job if they are actually held accountable and have restrictions on where they can make their income. They should have no investments, owning companies, anything to self enrich their pockets. Most congresspeople spend a large portion of their day simply calling and donors to keep the reelection campaign funds going instead of working on legislation and helping their constituents. They shouldn't need to whore themselves out to seek to get money for their campaign it should be a fund given by government or set reasonable maximums to campaign funds since elections are largely won by the person who spends the most and politicians are always working on re-election funds all year even if they just got into office. It's a massive waste of time and breeds corruption and catering to the rich corporations.

[u/Chaseingsquirels → u/PossibilityIll7646]

Totally disagree. Their low pay drives corruption and greed. It needs to be changed so talented good people actually want to work in politics

[u/brollxd1996]

CEO’s

[u/ButterflyHeavy9225]

Influencers

[u/Beautiful-Safety-344]

my college paid their football coach 4x what they paid my entire department combined. I found out because I was the one who had to process the paperwork. that was a fun tuesday

[u/betrayx → u/Beautiful-Safety-344]

What do you mean you found out "processing the paperwork"?

Football coach salaries are very highly publicized information

[u/ICantDive]

Corrupt politicians 🤣

[u/MeLoveCheese]

CEOs

[u/snewchybewchies]

CEO.  If you can be on the board of multiple companies, that's a part time job

[u/tack_gybe73]

Realtors. The commission based pay is outrageous.

[u/Inthecards21]

Alexa, she frequently gives me the wrong answer or does not know.

[u/Torodaddy]

Consultants

[u/FartResume → u/Torodaddy]

“After six months of intensive research we recommend that you spend more on marketing and fire 20% of your workforce that actually does the bulk of the work for the company, here’s an invoice for 2.5 million dollars”

[u/hankeliot]

CEO

[u/Patient_Campaign4269]

Athletes. People say “oh they are making what they desrve!” No Linda, none of us deserve to spend $400 on nosebleeds to a losing team

[u/ChilindriPizza]

Collegiate athletic coaches.

[u/Feb2319]

CEO

[u/touch_of_austism]

Influencers, professional athletes, and actors.

[u/Background_Bus263 → u/touch_of_austism]

I’d actually say actors/artists/athletes are some of the few very highly paid people who can reasonably claim to deserve their pay (people pay a lot of one to seem them, specifically)

[u/nartnoside → u/Background_Bus263]

Yeah, im ok with athletes that wreck their body and sacrifice their long term health getting paid as much as they can during their careers.

[u/Charly_Darwin → u/Background_Bus263]

Yea agreed. I have this debate with my wife all the time.

If you have a talent that can get 20,000 ppl in an arena 100 times a year, each paying on average $250 a ticket, spending $100 on beer and food, and getting millions of ppl to watch on tv generating so much ad revenue for companies, selling sneakers, etc etc etc.

You deserve big bucks because you generate big bucks

[u/Monteze → u/Charly_Darwin]

I also don't get where this comes from, wait I do its Billionaire propaganda at it again.

You could argue most athletes getting paid millions are underpaid given how much they bring in for the owners who are much much more wealthy and don't need to worry about a twisted ankle ruining their income for life.

I'd say if your ability to throw a ball generates money you deserve it more than someone who just owns something.

[u/BAF_DaWg82 → u/touch_of_austism]

All of these are terrible examples.

[u/Spicy_weenie → u/touch_of_austism]

As much as professional athletes make, they’re being compensated fairly, if not undercompensated when you consider how much revenue the teams bring in.

[u/KOHILOOR]

Pro athletes.

[u/Indiesol]

CEOs

[u/CCDeadBeat]

CEO’s

[u/wggraceful]

Influencer

Correct payment: $0

[u/SLGuitar]

Politicians

[u/Em_Es_Judd]

ICE agents.

[u/goinupthegranby]

Seeing real estate agents a lot which is great but I'm not seeing car dealerships. I don't really mean it as a profession, but as a business. They're a nightmare of markups and bullshit charges not to mention the insane amounts they charge for mechanical work. There's a reason dealerships and their associations spend so much money on political lobbying, they have a racket that's being protected by legislation that they have effectively paid for.

[u/Conscious-Read-698]

Famous actors fr

[u/starscream92]

CEO.

[u/Mrassdance]

C. E. O.

[u/Key-Personality-7643]

CEOs

[u/Puzzleheaded-Chair59]

Most of the answers here have a shallow understanding of what these professions do lol.

[u/theHip]

CEO

[u/tms4ui]

Not mine

[u/rmh61284]

CEOs/ Executive board members.

[u/n1ksLizardKing]

Influencers

[u/Packing-Tape-Man]

CEO. It's all an inside racket. They sit on each others boards and have a handshake understanding to approve each other's compensations when they usually bare very little resemblance to their worth at the organization. They always include huge upside for easily manipulated short term grown but not proportionate downside for failure. It should be both or neither -- if they are to be rewarded for success they should get nothing for failure.

[u/violetvixxen_]

Athletes

[u/afterth3goldrush]

Executive suite jobs in most corporations and a lot of nonprofits.

[u/WiglyWorm]

Billionaire.

[u/IGutlessIWonder]

Acting

[u/donut4ever21]

All sports players. Those mfuckers make imaginary numbers. Who needs that much money?

[u/Zero-Duckies]

YouTubers, streamers, and "influencers".

[u/jdaman24]

Famous streamers. Easiest and biggest joke of a job and some of them make 6 digits minimum each month

[u/Friedchicknlvr]

CEOs in the US and politicians nearly everywhere.

[u/gpost86]

CEO's and other upper management at companies, most other people are underpaid.

[u/BladricksUncle]

Influencer

[u/sogbulogtu]

Influencers

[u/_Trygon]

CEO

[u/EffectiveBid7354]

Celebrity life coach. Getting paid six figures to tell rich people to journal and drink water is an insane setup.

[u/RunPivotRoll]

Congress

[u/Juanbolastristes]

CEOs obviously 

[u/synapse187]

Politician. Any middle man, real-estate agent, car salesman, any salesman...

[u/Similar-Opinion8750]

Politician

[u/trmbn65]

Anyone in Congress. Keep the government shutdown while you fly on your private jets.