| The common belief is that becoming an engineer is | | | | profession to consider. Even a starting professional in |
| one of the best ways to put one's life in the right | | | | this field could earn a salary of over $70,000 a year. |
| direction, and if you see the average engineering | | | | Civil Engineers |
| salary today, you will certainly believe in the truth of | | | | Civil engineers are people who plan for the designing |
| it. Most engineers make money on par with doctors, | | | | and maintenance of construction work. They deal |
| surgeons and lawyers, which are some of the most | | | | with all kinds of construction, commercial and |
| lucrative professions in the world today. However, | | | | residential. It is a highly demanding job which also |
| there is a lot of variation in what one can earn based | | | | carries a lot of responsibility-a civil engineering job |
| on the particular engineering stream that the | | | | gone wrong could mean loss of hundreds, or perhaps |
| professional belongs to. | | | | more, of lives. However, if you have a penchant for |
| Here we shall take a look at different kinds of | | | | it, you could do well. And with a starting salary of |
| engineering salaries. | | | | more than $60,000 a year, a civil engineer is definitely |
| Petroleum Engineer | | | | well-compensated. |
| A petroleum engineer holds an important position, in | | | | Mechanical Engineers |
| that this engineer needs to help find the right places | | | | Mechanical engineers are people who design any kind |
| where petroleum can be mined from, secure the | | | | of machine, whether it is as small as an automated |
| methods in which that can be done and then suggest | | | | CD storage rack or as huge as an electric crane. |
| ideas and means on how to refine petroleum into its | | | | Companies are perennially needing mechanical |
| various useful components. The job requires a lot of | | | | engineers and hence these people always find jobs. |
| expertise and it is not surprising that a petroleum | | | | The starting mechanical engineering salary is |
| engineer is among the highest paid engineers in the | | | | somewhere between $50,000 and $70,000, |
| world today. The highest salary that an experienced | | | | depending on the complexity and the risk factor of |
| petroleum engineer can draw is in the vicinity of | | | | the job involved, and it can go on up to three times |
| $150,000 a year, while even someone who is starting | | | | as much, which happens when the engineer gains |
| out here can draw around $60,000 a year. | | | | some experience in the chosen line of work. |
| Software Engineers | | | | Agricultural Engineers |
| Software engineering is fast emerging as one of the | | | | Agricultural engineers are basically engineers who |
| most highly-paid engineering professions in the world | | | | invent, develop and implement new methods for |
| today. These are people who devise software | | | | agriculture. However, theirs is not a very highly-paid |
| applications, a dire need in today's times. They have a | | | | job. These are among the lowest-paid engineers in |
| high demand in companies around the world and are | | | | the world today. A qualified and experienced |
| almost always absorbed with high salaries. There are | | | | agricultural engineer would make around $90,000 a |
| more than 350,000 software engineer jobs available | | | | year, while someone who is starting out would be |
| in the US alone right now, which makes this quite a | | | | placed at not more than $40,000 a year. |