Are Engineers salaries this bad (1 Viewer)

[ebbygoo]

Engineering management is something you might want to look into for high salaries.

Care to explain what this is haha.
I'm interested in structural engineering but also the business side/ my ultimate goal is to be a CEO of an engineering firm lol; but I don't really get what uni course you'd do for this lol.

 

[lordfraction]

I've been reading around a lot lately and I seem to be seeing that graduate Engineers seem to be getting paid in the 60-70k range, is that true? Because that salary sounds pretty poor.

Will getting a Masters Degree significantly increase the amount earned?

Is 65k even a lot of money?

you complete idiot, 65k is alot higher than most wages and you should be grateful if you acquired that.

 

[lordfraction]

Care to explain what this is haha.
I'm interested in structural engineering but also the business side/ my ultimate goal is to be a CEO of an engineering firm lol; but I don't really get what uni course you'd do for this lol.

yes that is everyones goal, if there was a course for training CEOs every man and his goat would do that.

 

[tattoo2200]

60K is extremely good graduate pay. The per capita income is around 35K. That salary would be sufficient for life man. Dont sweat it. And you will start to earn big bucks when you progress in your progression. No one is gonna fucken may a kid who has almost no experience in the field hundreds of thousands.

 

[brent012]

Care to explain what this is haha.
I'm interested in structural engineering but also the business side/ my ultimate goal is to be a CEO of an engineering firm lol; but I don't really get what uni course you'd do for this lol.

Well, engineering. Then after getting some experience in industry do an MBA or similar course. Idk about other unis or if it's any good but UTS have a masters of engineering management and supposedly if you pick your subjects right you can graduate with both an MEM and and MBA in the time it would take to do one of those courses.

 

[4025808]

I hear petroleum engineering grads get 80-90K when they first get a job.

 

[ebbygoo]

yes that is everyones goal, if there was a course for training CEOs every man and his goat would do that.

What I mean is what business skills should you get/course to do.
I mean an engineer without business skills surely couldn't go and run a firm.

 

[Roscosmos]

Anything over 50k is good for a grad of anything. Petroleum/Mining has the highest average grad salaries, usually ~85-110k as of last year. Don't base your decision off that though, going into a career purely because it pays lots is a terrible idea.

 

[lee337]

Anything over 50k is good for a grad of anything. Petroleum/Mining has the highest average grad salaries, usually ~85-110k as of last year. Don't base your decision off that though, going into a career purely because it pays lots is a terrible idea.

True dat.

 

[Vagabond]

Anything over 50k is good for a grad of anything. Petroleum/Mining has the highest average grad salaries, usually ~85-110k as of last year. Don't base your decision off that though, going into a career purely because it pays lots is a terrible idea.

Even worse is getting into a career because YOU THINK it pays a lot. I like talking to Law students for that reason.

On a serious note, engineering leads itself to very specialised career paths such that there can be enormous differences to what people are paid down the track.

My high level opinion is that Petroleum isn't exactly an area thats expected to grow tremendously in the future so there's probably economic reasons as to why they have to pay more now.

 

[RG11]

you should be more worried getting a job doing a bachelor of science

haha +1