Best Engineering Major for a Premed

morfinx
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:15:55 +0000

Also, as a side note, to me, only 150k-200k is a decent salary



ONLY 150k-200k. You make it sound so easy. You are not going to make that kind of money without some serious hard work. The average annual wage for a person in the US is $37,870 (source: US Bureau of Labor Stats). There are only 3.17% of HOUSEHOLDS that make $150-200k a year (source: US Cenesus Bureau). There is a reason so few people make that much.

I don’t mean to denigrate or offend, but I do want to make clear that high income comes only with hard work. With that said, if you have a vested interest in computers, Computer Hardware Engineers are the highest paid engineering specialty apart of niche specialties like Nuclear or Petroleum engineering (source: US BLS).