Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
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Hello,
I am a mechanical engineer with 6 years of experience in the plastics auxillary equipment design industry. I started there right out of college. What type of salary should I be expecting? I know that this is a broad question that will probably draw broad responses...
I'm the lead engineer on the primary future product in a company that does about $25,000,000/year in gross sales.
I am a mechanical engineer with 6 years of experience in the plastics auxillary equipment design industry. I started there right out of college. What type of salary should I be expecting? I know that this is a broad question that will probably draw broad responses...
I'm the lead engineer on the primary future product in a company that does about $25,000,000/year in gross sales.





RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
Salary really vary by geographical area and industry. Asking a general question like that will not help in your particular situation, except in case you are looking to move on into another job/area/industry/etc.
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RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
Go to Salary.com, from there you can at least get a mean for your area, experience, and industry...
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RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
Ed
RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
In my experience, the largest salary increases came with moving to a new employer as they are looking to fill an immediate need. Once in, increases tended to be back to the 3-5% annual range.
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RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
To put that in perspective, I live in a run-down country town/port but am on the same pay scale as my co-workers who work in the state capital. I bought my house (outright) for one year's salary. I doubt they could buy their garages for that.
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RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html
You can google for "cost of living" comparison and find lots of others too.
If you do find a comparable position in another part of the country you can use this to reference back to your location.
Disclaimer - the above site is only for the USA.
RE: Mechanical engineer salary, 6 years experience