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<p>I don’t see how that’s relevant. The original thread was not talking about Anglo countries, for nobody is claiming that engineering is socially prestigious within the UK or Australia. {For example, in the UK - as in the US - the best students strongly prefer to be investment bankers rather than engineers.} The question on the table is regarding Germany or other countries where engineering is considered to be socially prestigious.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the US is a rich country and so every American will tend to make more than their foreign counterpart. A guy flipping burgers in the US will probably make more than a guy flipping burgers in another country. The question is what are the relative payoffs of various career paths within any particular country. As I’ve always said, the average US engineer doesn’t earn that much of an income boost compared to the average American. I wish they did, but they do not.</p>