Water/Wastewater Engineer Salary
Water/Wastewater Engineer Salary
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I have 9 years experience designing and overseeing construction projects, preparing contract documents, working with funding agencies and many other aspects of engineering. I was wondering what the average engineer salary was with this experience. I do have my PE. I work for a small firm so I assume my salary would be less. My current salary is 56K. Thanks for any input.





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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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After 5 years in the UK water/wastewater industry, I take home roughly twice what it takes to pay my mortgage and my gas, water, electric, telephone, etc bills. Which leaves aobut half my pay packet for trivialities like food, running my car, buying clothes, etc. My house has 3-bedrooms and is the right sort of size for a young family and my car is a little runabout thing with pretty good mpg so its not the most extravagant lifestyle but not exactly frugal.
If your pay extends to cover the cost of a more glamorous lifestyle where you are, I'd suggest you are probably be doing OK. If you're barely covering the rent on a shoebox with a shared bathroom then you could probably do better.
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Size of the firm makes a big difference in salary. Also whether it is public/privately owned.
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How does the size of the firm relate to the salary? Do smaller firms pay more or less than larger firms?
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45K x (1.05^Y)
Y= years of experience (1-10 Yrs).
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My personal experience is that larger firms paid higher salary than smaller firms for the same job duties.
Public corporations or companies with ESOP's generally pay higher than one owner or two or three owner partnership.
Of course these are all general observations. You can have an employee at small firms making more than ones at big A/E firms but you have to be the owner's friend/college roommate, or at least have a very close relationship on a personal level.
Salaries also vary within the various branches of civil disciplines and being a structural engineer I can say we make, generally, less than pure civil.