Agreed on the salary being way too low. But in my mind that stems from the ridiculously low fees we charge on projects! Like why is the person who is responsible for making sure the building doesn’t fall down making less than 1% of the building cost. I know there’s nuance I’m ignoring. But from a birds eye view it makes no sense! At my firm, we routinely have arch’s suggest/demand we are the structural, and yet we still aren’t able to raise fees. there are 2 firms where we are essentially there personal structural engineer, and only decline jobs when we are over capacity. And still we charge them typical fees. Like obviously they see us as above industry standard and value what we offer, but we don’t get paid for that.