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What is a good paying job in the engineering field?

What is the highest paying job in the field of engineering?

  • is it computer (software or hardware) engineering? mechanical? aerospace? civil?

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    I have a degree in chemical engineering (ChE), and my husband has a degree in computer science engineering (CSE). I can tell you from experience that while ChE tends to have the highest starting salary just out of college, you will usually get to a higher salary faster if you're a CSE. Welll, that's assuming you're not an idiot at it. :-) If you're debating what to major in because of the salary, don't. It's really important to like what you're going to do, and ChE tends to burn people out. To make it through ChE, you have to be really dedicated. The departments are typically very small, even at huge universities; I went to Ohio State, and my graduating ChE class 5 years ago was less than 50 people for the whole year. The course material is really difficult (physical chemistry, anyone?), and 90% of my classmates didn't want to be a ChE by the time they graduated...they were completely burned out.

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I believe on average the highest paying engineering field is chemical engineering. I came back to check on this question and felt I needed to elaborate on my answer after reading the other answers. Chemical engineering is the highest paying job in the field of engineering. Chemical Engineering $63,616

James

Civil

Messi

Probably petroleum. But among the more general ones: chemical, then computer

Jason

To tell you the truth, most engineering firms are private, as in they pay for what they want out of you. If you are new to any of the fields, your a lacky, and maybe get around 70,000 dollars a year, and thats a little high. If you are working for aerospace industry as a software engineer, then things may be different than a mechanical engineer in the aerospace engineer. Any of them will make you live comfortably in the economy today. Just do what you enjoy, as for me, Im going for either a structural or computer sciences engineering degree when I go to college, so its just a matter of time.

Joe S

Civil

Saji

dunno, but i'm damn sure it ain't mine!

Barry G

Also a grad of The Ohio State University and an EE. In my class year, the Chem E's got the highest starting offers with the Petrol. option ("Mud") guys (and girls) the higher among the Chem E's. Next were the EE's and ME's at about 95% of the Chem E's offers. "Aerospace is just a glorified ME with some course options and they had no starting salary edge over their fellow ME's-same with "Nuclear". This was OK even though the EE's typically helped the Chem E's with their math (Hitchcock lounge) and the Chem E's helped us with Chem-j/k dark. Some of the computer types (those with EE degrees) were even with the top EE's, but the "CIS" types were a little lower. Civils were significantly lower compared to the other "main" engineering degrees. If you want to maintain your starting salary "edge" that engineering typically has-suggest that you think about an MBA after a few years of work when you know what you really want to do.

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