Hey, where's EE?
There is no joy in Willieville today, at the sight of good news.
And my daughter is an English major. Big sigh.
My husband and son visited an "Engineering Fair" at our local state college.
Pretty consistent with the info they got from the professors in the engineering departments.
Chemical Engineering was #1 on their list too.
Hey, where's EE?
I know several that work at dealerships, all have less than 5 years experience, and they all make $50,000 or more.
>> Computer engineering graduates are following closely behind with $51,572, but that figure represents a 0.3 percent decrease from last year.
Those graduating with a degree in computer science are seeing heartier increases. According to NACE, information sciences and systems graduates earn $43,053 a year, up 8.2 percent from a year earlier, while computer science graduates make $49,691 a year, up 4.8 percent...<<
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I thought with the Dot com bust and the rest of the jobs moving overseas, these computer jobs were non existant.
Chemical Engineer here.
Yes, the starting salary is good. But the salary stays flat; pretty much increasing just a little bit better than the rate of inflation (unless one continues with additional education and earns a higher level degree, or moves out of Chemical Engineering).
Would engineering still hold the top spot?
One wonders....
And this is just for undergraduate degrees.
At the price of college versus the value received, many of these young adults should learn a trade and then have their parents give them the "education money" to go start their own business.
Engineering salaries are good, if you can find a job right now. I graduated with a BSME last year, and what I earn didn't even make the chart.
It's supply and demand, folks. There are tons of highly educated computer geeks, but that engineering stuff, hey, that's HARD!
Gee, I guess I'm wasting my time getting a degree in Bible so I can have a career preaching to lost souls, since there doesn't appear to be any money in it. /sarcasm
I've never believed in "degree as meal ticket."
No matter what the field, you're worth exectly what you negotiate, not a penny more or a penny less.
The great thing about getting an economics degree is that I can accurately explain why I'm unemployed.
I has hired as an auditor 4 years ago, my starting salary was $29,000, but after less than 4 year I'm making $65,000 and could easily be making $80,000 if I wanted to relocate.
Many students are turned off from accounting / auditing because it's viewws as boring and not as glamorous as some of the other business professions like marketing. But this hasn't been my experience at all, there is a lot of interesting travel and far less number crunching than most people imagine.
The most "lucrative" career of all though is the priesthood. How much is a saved soul worth?
Also, the chart doesn't tell you how many of the jobs showing increases are in parts of the country that normally have higher costs of living (and thus higher compensation.) If there's been a big shift from St. Louis to Chicago (as *is* the case), then you'd see a corresponding rise in salaries - when in actuality the rise in salary often does *not* keep up with the cost of living.
People interested in what's really going on in the EE and CS job market should read something like EE Times - the picture isn't anywhere near as rosy.
Where are the MATH folks??