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Poster: Azaleas
Subject: RE: College Major, Age, Occupation, Salary
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thefacts wrote:

The average engineering major doesn't make $60k upon graduation. You need to look at the methodology from payscale.com. The median salary (including bonuses, overtime, etc.) for a 25 year old engineer with 2 years experience, who is employed full-time, is $60k. That means this doesn't include huge percentages of people who are either a) unemployed (~12% for people under 25 with a bachelors degree), b) under-employed or employed part time, or c) employed full time in another field. I bet the true median for fresh out of college 22 year olds is more like $35k once you factor in all of those who can't find full time employment as an engineer.

Unemployment is way, way lower for engineering grads than for the general population of recent graduates. I graduated last year with no internships or relevant work and got a job making 50k pretty quickly (which is low, but I can expect 6 figures with 5 years of experience at this job). Based on talking to friends, the average starting salary is probably about 55k. Everyone with a degree in one of the "standard" engineering disciplines is going to find a job within a couple months of graduating.
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