dreampak

Thats fine you disagree. In fact I applaud you for not being a dbag in your reply like many other new folks here. Thats the point of a forum, people sharing their points of view.
I can agree about your argument that on average, finance doesnt pay that well. the truth is there are a lot more back office functions then there are rainmakers so obviously the average pay will skew downward much more. Just look at total average salaries and you’ll see even engineers will have much higher starting averages vs finance.
but 1 thing you need to think about is that people don’t generally go into finance thinking oh yes I’m going to work in the back office. there are not enough jobs for everyone to be on the revenue generating side and so therefore people end up taking back office jobs, or finance jobs in small mid size companies.
I also do agree on the whole there should b much less finance folks. But again its the fundamental problem where people only see the huge potential payout of landing that awesome job . it’s the same reason why people spend money buying the big payout lottery tickets even though the chances of landing it are slim to none. people buy the tickets shooting for the top and it’s generally the same with finance. I say generally because there are people who want to do back office, and some smartass will probably use it as an argumentjust for the sake of argument