Posted on 04/29/2013 12:49:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How can this be? No one wants to be an engineer anymore, because the pay is so weak.
Where are the philosophy majors?
I hope these are starting salaries.
You can find them in your local Starbucks.
Womyns’ Studies?
When I look at those figures, it makes me sick...to realize that even the lowest-ranking, dumbest congress critter makes nearly twice as the best paying position on the chart.
60+ grand not good enough for you?
Like to see History, Literature and Woman Studies Majors.
I can just hear it from the Leftards:
“Big Petroleum Engineer”
Go oilfield!
•Electrical/Electronics and Communications Engineering: $63,400
Go *Tronics*!
Where is “puppetry”?
What’s the poverty line, nowadays? LOL
“I hope these are starting salaries.”
They are. I have two sons with engineering degrees and their starting salaries were in line with these, given when they started.
What is surprising is that they do not list Civil Engineering. A lot of C.E. work goes to support petroleum infrastructure, and even absent that, a BSCE will get you a starting salary higher than that of BSAE.
and all the jobs are in India and China...
Uh, yeah . . . whatever.
“Where is “puppetry”?”
In the White House correspondent’s pool.
(Or the tool pool as it is affectionately known.)
When I was selecting a major in college (1960s), I expressed an interest in petroleum engineering. My adviser told me in no uncertain terms that it was a dead-end job with no openings. Someone would have to die for there to be an opening.
From the chart, I suppose there were a lot of old engineers who died or I picked the wrong field.
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