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If you are getting paid the same salary and aren't being 'fully utilized', this isn't 'underemployment'.

Underemployment is when you aren't working full-time and/or your employer isn't giving you enough hours.

I understand that "underemployment" is traditionally seen linked with the hours that you work but I feel that it is too simplistic to leave it at that. If a senior developer ends up working full-time at McDonanld's Or a manager level person ends up in a junior dev position, how is that not underemployment? Is there any other term for it? Are there are any stats around it?

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