The salary comparisons are also hurt by the fact that "architect" and "lawyer" are titles you have your entire career, while "restaurant manager" is a title only one person in the restaurant has.
If you compared the salary of an in-n-out manager to the engineer running the team, or to law firm partners, you'd get a different conclusion.
The fact that someone who's worked for a good chunk of their life at an In-N-Out makes more than a young professional fresh out of school seems pretty reasonable, when you think about it. (Although it still makes In-N-Out an exception, which is too bad.)
>The fact that someone who's worked for a good chunk of their life at an In-N-Out makes more than a young professional fresh out of school seems pretty reasonable, when you think about it. (Although it still makes In-N-Out an exception, which is too bad.)
With almost certainly far more hours worked to make that salary, as well. Most fast food managers are spending 60+ hours/week in the store, opening early and closing late at night. All to make a decent living wage in California. I would not envy that life one bit.
Architechts, except Landscape and Naval (which also excludes Software Architects, which are in a completely different high-level category) make a median salary of $95,070 in California (about halfway between your Glassdoor info and what the article has from Indeed), per the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has much more complete data than either Indeed or Glassdoor.
That's because software architects are wrapped up with building architects on Indeed. Building architects make much less: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/architect-salary-SRCH_KO0...
(Which is partially why I left.)