How Much Does An Engineer Make Salary
The type of engineering can change the salary significantly. Mechanical and Aerospace engineers tend to have similar starting salaries, whereas computer and chemical engineers tend to have noticeably higher salaries, and electrical engineers are maybe somewhere between those. Civil engineers make something similar to ME/AE until they earn their Professional Engineer license (required for many CE jobs) and start making a whole lot more.
The location of work changes the salary significantly due to the different costs of living. For example, someone working in the silicon valley can literally make 3x’s as much as someone in the midwest, but the cost of living is honestly even more than 3x’s as much depending on where exactly you try and stay.
How Much Does An Engineer Make Salary, for a rough number, here are some wide ranges of starting salaries by engineering focus? Note that this is a starting salary, not an average or max.
- MechE/Aero/Civil: $60k - $90k
- Electrical Eng: $70k - $100k
- Computer/ChemE: $80k - $110k
Again, those are extremely rough numbers since the salary changes so much across the nation, but hopefully a start for you.
As one reference point, immediately after graduation, I was offered salaries in the range of $70k - $85k between Midwest and Northeast locations as an entry-level aeronautical engineer.
Anything between 30k-150k$ per year depending on the skill set and level of expertise. For a fresh graduate just of college with an undergraduate degree ~ 30k - 60k$ per year. For a masters degree holder 50k to 120k $ per year or even more depending on your background (university, skill level, projects). For a PhD, I think around 60k- 130k$ per year.
These numbers may vary from company to company. For ex. a Google mechatronics engineer working on their autonomous car would fetch a higher amount. Similarly someone working with NASA will get a handsome amount of money. It all comes back to your skill level and background.
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