Differences in starting salary among different engineering majors

nshah9617
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:44:54 +0000

I have not heard of ChemE/EEs making 10-15k more than MEs/CivilEs.

Here are the statistics from my UG, UT-Austin.

[Student Interactive - Full-time Salary Survey](Career Services)

It looks that EE/ME/ChemE are pretty much the same.

Also, in terms of PetroE salaries I can confirm that they do make a good 10-15k more a year than the other engineering majors. At my old employer, they lumped all the EE/CHemE/Mech and non PetroE majors together and paid them the same.

The starting salary for a EE/ChemE/MechE was about 65-75k while PetroE got anywhere from 80-95k.

Of course more diverse factors come into play like program and the economy.