Why are chemical engineers paid so less?

[u/Illustrious-Art-55]

They work at dangerous sites, their work includes many complex operations, its way more complex then writing some code in AC room and the companies they work for? They earn in millions, still Chemical engineers are not paid good say in terms of IT industry or even automobile for that matter.

[u/cyber_bully]

Just by how this is written I can tell you’re from India. The answer to your question is that there are millions of Indian engineers willing to work for nothing so they undercut any market willing to let them in. Some are good, many are shit, but there are 10s of millions of them. Each willing to work for slightly less than the next.

[u/Illustrious-Art-55 → u/cyber_bully]

I hate this fact and to add to that, most of the Indian engineers will switch up their fields right after college which essentially renders their knowledge gained in college as essentially useless which produces low quality crap engineers.