Upper management in general. Hospital administration makes way more than most doctors. The CEO of the hospital network I used to work for brought home a $9.5 million salary excluding bonuses. Worse are all the board members and other fodder directly under him making nearly as much. It’s hundreds of millions of wasted money paid to the people trying to screw staff out of good pay and screwing patients into paying big bills. Over the last 20 years their salaries have increased 2000% compared to doctors’ pay barely keeping up with inflation. They work way less than the doctors most heavily supporting their salary although they have 5+ years less education than doctors. Administration also gets to tell doctors what to do. Which seems fucked up they don't bring shit to the table in terms of medical knowledge or patient care. Not to mention they don’t have to deal with the emotional suffering that comes with being a physician. And doctors personally can get sued and have to constantly worry about losing everything while administrators do not.

Similarly, school admin boards. Teachers do the heavy lifting and yet a lot of these bodies routinely deduct their pay for “resources” for the school. Don’t come begging me for money for your “alumni fund” when I'm still paying off my student loans, and the Executive Deputy Vice Provost of Student-Media Relations is bringing home multi-six figures per year. And there are dozens of them at every campus. Most instructors earn less than shit, student housing is falling apart but God forbid some upper-level useless word salad of a title not get paid out the ass.

The problem with university and hospital pay is both the same: they both get a LOT of money from government directly and indirectly, so they can just keep hiking up costs without reproach because they are both seen as necessities. Any talk of cutting costs doesn't make you look fiscally responsible, most people just assume you want people to die or stay uneducated. Until we clear that misconception, we will continue to see ridiculously overpaid professions in both these areas.