OK, so let's ask Wolfram Alpha:

http://tinyurl.com/l7djfe

Logically, you might expect there to be a correlation between how rare a 
profession is and how much they get paid. I don't see one.

You might also expect dangerous jobs to pay more. Doesn't seem to be the 
case.

So how about how skilled the job is? Well, there's kind-of a correlation 
there...

But mostly, I'm just surprised that [except for doctors, who are the 
clear outliers here] programmers supposedly earn more than everybody 
else, by quite some margin. (You'd expect the accountants to be ahead by 
a mile...)

Ooo, lawyers? Nope, apparently they earn (substantially) less than 
doctors. [But of course, this is only on average... No range figures to 
go at.]

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