<p>ucbalumnus writes “There are not that many CEOs relative to the number of graduates with bachelor’s or master’s degrees in business administration. Investment bankers may be more numerous, but still not a big percentage (and many are from math, statistics, physics, etc. due to a need for quantitative finance skills).”</p>
<p>You don’t have to be the CEO or in investment banking to be paid more than an engineer. If you are going to chase the opportunity for money there’s no need to study engineering as there are easier pickings in finance, law, and medicine. While engineers have marketable skills they are not being paid the really big bucks (exceptions exist of course).</p>