What are the most overpaid/underpaid professions?

Most lawyers charge way too much and half of them are either incompetent or lazy. I've seen many lawyers charge .10 billable hours for every single email and when you are charging $200-$500/hour the work does not meet the cost. I've seen so many lawyers try to file the incorrect paperwork, fill out the paperwork incorrectly, or ask for interpretations of court rules and statutes it boggles my mind. Don't get me wrong, the attorneys that know what they are doing are worth every penny, the problem is that there are so many bad attorneys out there.

Totally agree with teachers as underpaid, CEO's overpaid.

I honestly think family doctors are overpaid. I mean if they find something questionable, they send you to a specialist. Most of the time the nurse is the one examining you anyway, but they can't diagnose. Family docs can prescribe medication, but pharmacist should be allowed to do it. Used to work at a pharmacy and many times docs would prescribe wrong medication and the pharmacist would have to call the doc and explain it all to them.

Nurses, linemen/utility workers, are underpaid. College administrators are overpaid.

Professional sports figure is absolutely the most overpaid profession.

Teachers and cops most underpaid.

not knowing the details of what the guy working in social marketing is doing, i may be on shaky grounds in saying that it's not crazy to me that he'd make a lot more than an accountant.

accounting is certainly a good, steady profession, and it pays pretty well. but there are a lot of us. if one of us goes away, there are plenty of perfectly competent people ready to take our place. you can't throw a brick without hitting an accredited accountant.

but if you're a creative person who can make an interesting ad that will get people's attention, you can do something that not many people can do.

i don't know that this is what the guy in media marketing is doing, but if he's pulling in 120k, i'd expect he's overseeing something that not very many people can do.

that would be my guess, anyway.

Underpaid: -
Firefighters - they will literally run into a burning building for you.

University lecturers. They make barely anything these days.

Overpaid? Movie stars.

Police and Firefighters seem underpaid for their jobs
Around here they can retire with very good benefits after 20 years so that's a great thing

Millionaires that get paid to chase balls around.

"All he does is basically post Facebook ads"

I heard an entrepreneur who had dabbled in everything from a restaurant to an ad agency say that the dumbest rich people were those who worked in advertising.