<p>How much money can an entry level engineer with experience as a mechanic on aircraft expect to earn? I an an ME student. I would like to stay in aviation though.</p>
<p>[This</a> link](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php"]This”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php), as well as the BLS website, would be helpful.</p>
<p>what is the bls webite?</p>
<p>BLS is the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They have something called the occupational outlook handbook that provides salary, working conditions and job outlook information, however they don’t always break the figures down by level of experience. So perhaps a better place to look would be Career Services at your school. Those offices usually publish average salaries for graduates of your particular school.</p>
<p><a href=“http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/08/pf/college/lucrative_degrees_winter07/index.htm[/url]”>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/08/pf/college/lucrative_degrees_winter07/index.htm</a></p>
<p>It’s a shame that those numbers are unheard of in Canada.</p>
<p>aswat12389 that may be true but the BLS site gives you a good idea on how much you can expect to earn with a few years of experience.</p>
<p>Its a shame what some people come out of HS not knowing.</p>
<p>Its a shame as a engineering degree is not even cherished anymore. Look most Business majors who go through school nice and easy will make just as much as a engineer and it 6 years time will double the salary of th engineer.</p>
<p>why are we so stupid. jeez, I feel dumb.</p>
<p>Yea but keep in mind that sooner rather than later plenty of business students will be replaced by simulated computer programs.
I don’t understand why you are upset with a degree in engineering you will be able to land a job in finance with a degree in engineering. Not to mention your peers analytical skills will not be up to par with yours.</p>
<p>Ive just been doing alot of reading lately and talking to alot of folks and it seems that most companies want MIS guys to develop software rather than a CS guy. It just really bother me, that companies really want stupid people.</p>
<p>I am a PC technician and the firm I used to work for fired all the techs recently and hired a bunch of kids who have never even opened a computer before. never even installed a OS. I quit that job a while ago, but just to hear of stuff like this, it makes me really mad and sad, that companies want stupid.</p>
<p>Symantec came to my schools job fair and was specifically looking for about 5 or so new grads to help them in my schools area for a new venture or something like that. This was really great, and a lot of CS students were pretty happy, as most opf my school is commuters and well most dont want to have to move away from home. Well in the End 3 MIS students I know, ended up being picked and 2 others i dont know, but no CS students. Now I have TA’ed CSE 113 & 114 at my school and MIS students aren’t the brightest bulbs. the 113/114 is CS 1 and CS2 for non Majors. Very laid back and easy. Compared to the CS1/CS2 for Majors, which is alot harder. So the MIS student gets the job, but doesnt know ****, again companies want stupid.</p>
<p>Well, Now you know MIS students are paid very very well. The media MIS salary is something like 115,000 a year (not entry-level. median)</p>
<p>Why though, what skills do they have than a engineer doesn’t. To me Management stuff you lean in Undergrad Business schools is 100% common sense. Ive take accounting and such, they are so ridiculously easy its a sin.</p>
<p>My brother is currently doing a Master’s in MIS at NYU. MIS gets more detailed as you go in. He is currently a programmer for RedHat Linux working on the Fedora project. He tried CompE as undergrad but switched to MIS since by then he already knew where he was going to work and what he was going to and preferred the easier major to concentrate more on out-of-class work to be able to land a great job like that.
MIS majors learn decision support systems, resource and people management applications, project management, and database retrieval applications. Maybe the job positions required those skills not just programming skills.</p>
<p>Or you could manage in Systems engineers and be the real guy who makes stuff work.</p>
<p>To the OP, if you leveraged your practical experience you could earn on the higher side of the Aerospace spectrum. If you got good grades and followed up with relevant internships, I don’t think 65K would be out of the question.</p>
<p>thanks Mr. Payne</p>