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Originally Posted by riven  That depends.
Noone in my engineering class or the one before or after got initial contract more than 35K average was set at 29.5K. For chemical engineers (3rd best pay after oil engineers and aerodynamical design enginneers). |
4th best. You're forgetting computer engineers in that list. The year after I graduated, the median pay for my classmates was north of 30k, and in the two to five years after that, it increased. The
top starting pay got really quite silly there before the pop.
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yes money can increase rapidly in industry but it usually comes with a move towards management.
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But that's a path that about half of all engineers take - more if you include team leads and other technical lead roles in the 'management' umbrella.