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The best reason I could come up with why someone would think ethicists need to disagree with each other to keep their jobs, is that they need to "publish or perish". But that applies equally well to other academic fields, like mathematics. If it's not true of mathematicians, then I'm left with no reason to think it's true of ethicists.
Mathematicians - along with scientists - discover new things (what is a proof other than a discovery of a new mathematical property). That's what their job is. In order for Ethicists to be comparable, wouldn't they need to discover new ethics?
Sure, and they do. One out of the three major subfields of ethics is "applied ethics", which simply analyzes actual or potential circumstances using their expertise in ethics. The space for that is probably as big as the space for mathematical proofs.