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>But, they often still pay far better than just about any other career you can do.

Yep, that's completely true.

>I'm a fairly unremarkable developer who works for a no-name tech company, but still make twice as much as my friends my age who are in law or accounting, even finance.

Yep.

>Only ones who even come close are in non-white collar jobs with unions and access to lots of overtime hours that they pick up. Their base pay isn't even close.

Yep. I would say that SWEs have even better working conditions than any union I have heard of.