Someone Asks “What Job Is 100% Overpaid?” And 30 People Don’t Hold Back With Their Answers
Equitable pay changes over time and companies need to be continuously reviewing what they're paying their employees. However, according to a Gartner survey of roughly 3,500 workers conducted in 2022, only 32% of them felt like they were fairly compensated.
Interested in the other side of the spectrum, Reddit user Designer-Meeting-123 made a post on the platform, asking everyone to list the jobs that they believe are grossly overpaid.
From realtors to management consultants, we've compiled the most popular submissions and are eager to learn your opinion on the matter. So continue scrolling and upvote the professions that you think are earning too much.
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Influencers.
This! This needs to be first!!! A bunch of entitled people, that always complain about how "hard work" it is being an influencer, but never ACTUALLY worked a day in their lives and expect everyone to treat them like royalty!!! I hate influencers with a fierce passion!!!!
A failed CEO. "Bob, you've done a terrible job. Here's 60 million dollars. Hit the road.".
I'd say it depends what sector, but my sorta-answer is that its f****d to see CEO's CFO's, COO's, etc, getting literally tens of millions in **BONUSES** when the company is also laying off thousands of workers, selling off assets, losing value, or whatever.
I always figured a bonus was something you earned when you did a good job...
College football coach. “Fisher was fired Sunday morning late in his sixth season at Texas A&M with more than $76 million remaining on his fully guaranteed contract.”.
College sports in the USA are absolutely wild to me. The highest paid 'educator' at most colleges is probably not the Dean - it's the football coach. They get huge crowds though, so the coach arguably generates the most income too.
Politicians, state level and up. Part time thumb twiddling with great full time benefits for life.
I don't think so. Compared to any big company politicians are paid way less. Our Chancelor in Germany has a monthly salary of around 30K€. Which is much less than any "big CEO", actor or sports star. And that guy's running our country. Similar to the US president.
Anything connected with the funeral or wedding industries.
I take issue with the funeral industry part of this. No one needs to get married, but everyone will die. And most people don't want to deal with bodies themselves. Therefore, we have funeral homes and burial societies. It's also important to ensure that diseases don't spread. Very important work that not everyone could do.
NBA player.
Literally any F500 CEO. 1200% overpaid.
I initially read that as "120% overpaid" and was about to fire off a rude response when a second glance corrected me. Then again, is 1200% high enough?
Fired college football coaches.
The whole college sports scene in the US is absolutely bizarre. It's more like sports teams that have a school attached then the other way round.
D**g company reps. And on the flip side, pharmacists are incredibly underpaid.
I still know what that word is. Putting stars on it didn't protect anybody from any kind of harm from knowing what the word is. Stop being asinine.
Education admin. I'm sorry, you don't need almost 400k a year for being the head of a school district.
During a recession, years ago, the teachers were being told there was no money in the district to raise pay. We got like a 2% raise over a three year contract. Meanwhile, the administrators got like a 14% pay raise. Totally absurd!
Realtors. They serve zero purpose in today’s market and are overpaid for their “services” by a criminal margin. They email documents and turn locks, that’s it.
HR department. Cancer of any org I've ever been in.
Actors. You don't deserve millions for acting goofy. Not even as a privacy compensation.
But in the end it's just supply and demand so what are ya going to do about it.
Management consultants.
They serve their purpose. I once worked for a telecommunications company subsidiary that had to lay off people and slim down. And as none of the CEO, CFO, CTO and board of directors wanted to be blamed, they hired consultants. Because then they were able to say: "Look, not what we want, but the experts have a clear professional opinion. so we are doing that." I know, because I worked closely for the CEO. And yeah, I know what that expert opinion did cost us. Redicilous.
School district superintendents. While I will admit, I cannot honestly articulate exactly what they do, that may very well be part of the problem.
And anytime I see a scandal or their pay is otherwise mentioned, it seems staggeringly high for a government position.
Mine. Healthcare marketing. Being paid 6 figures [with only a Bachelor's Degree] to tell people [who are already medical school educated] how to treat their patients is actually hilarious! But if you're gonna pay me for it...
Real estate agents. Maybe if it's your first home and you need everything done for you, or this was the 1990s before online listings - a buyer's agent and a seller's agent on each respective side, the two agents splitting a 6% to 7% commission made some sense. But for your average transaction, or experienced buyers / sellers, this just doesn't make sense anymore and it's a huge expense on already expensive home sale.
I bought a For Sale Buy Owner home, no realtor on either side. Hired an attorney to handle paperwork and we split the expense. Super easy. Also sold a home, without no realtor, and the buyer's did have an agent. The agent was awful at communicating and being responsive, and she wanted her 3% "commision" to come out of the sale price. It's like sis, you literally made everything more difficult, we still had to pay an attorney to oversee the paperwork and title company, what exactly are you being paid for here? I don't give a s**t how many houses you showed to your clients before they decided to buy a FSBO and tried to keep you involved.
so you had a bad agent and then blamed her for wanting to get paid. meh. We have a wonderful agent and are happy to give her the commission that she earned repeatedly through multiple home sales and purchases.
Almost every C-Suite position.
Reddit moderator.
Every billionaire.
Omg customer success managers. I was one. I was paid a ridiculous amount to basically say “I don’t have the answer to a single question you asked but I can see if I can find someone… who can maybe answer it but they probably can’t”. It’s a JOKE.
A lot of those jobs where your job is to basically talk to people and pass information around and your biggest problem is people not reading emails thoroughly enough.
Hey, someone has to do it. ;) It's actually WAY more complicated than that, but I like to joke that my job mostly consists of writing and sending email.
HR at the hospital I worked at.
Real Estate Agents. Especially buyer side agents. Earning a percentage of the cost of the property is ridiculous. You do the same job for a $200k home vs a $10 million home.
This list could be a lot shorter, if the duplicates were weeded out.
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One of my favorite musicians of all time is a man named W***y Nelson. Whoever is in charge of censoring his name has a completely pointless job, and is VASTLY overpaid for it. EDIT: His name is Willie, shame on me.
This list seems to be compiled by people who don't actually know what these roles do. Some have valid points, but most are either repetitive and/or don't understand what work gets done.
Some valid as you said. They don’t understand what goes into the work, as is natural when you don’t do it. And they don’t understand revenue for sports.
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“Writers”. Scroll other sites and copy&paste what they have already written.
Load More Replies... One of my favorite musicians of all time is a man named W***y Nelson. Whoever is in charge of censoring his name has a completely pointless job, and is VASTLY overpaid for it. EDIT: His name is Willie, shame on me.
This list seems to be compiled by people who don't actually know what these roles do. Some have valid points, but most are either repetitive and/or don't understand what work gets done.
Some valid as you said. They don’t understand what goes into the work, as is natural when you don’t do it. And they don’t understand revenue for sports.
Load More Replies... “Writers”. Scroll other sites and copy&paste what they have already written.
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