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On the business news today they were showing that Chem E's were pulling in the highest starting pay, $59,720. This is not counting the signing bonus.

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We are looking at making an offer to a kid right out of school at $62k, location is Colorado.

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StoneCold,

I remember as I started my junior year the big buzz on campus was that a recent graduate had received an offer of $10,000/yr.  The kicker was that he had 3 degrees, Chem E, Physics and Math.
He had been my roommate the previous quarter.

RE: Starting Salaries

Graduated in '96, offered $45K starting at a large chemical company; highest starting salary out of my class (and I had nowhere near the highest grades, buahahahaha.)

Don't know if that tracks inflation (45 to 62).

Process engineers are in great demmand today, especially in Houston it seems.

Onwards,

Matt

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Based on my own calculations, the starting salary for ChE's is about 17% higher than when I started; I accounted for inflation. What makes these kids so useful? For every job I ever looked at in the past 10 years, my rejection letter had age discrimination written all over it! One guy, a VP at Hersey, sat there during the interview, never looked up, babbled questions to keep me busy while he counted my age up on my resume; I should have walked out then and there rather than enduring a 12-hour harrowing ride back to Grand Rapids, Michigan. With an experienced engineer a company gets someone with a track record who knows how to solve real world problems. The last kid we hired earned the name Duggie Houser. He did absolutely nothing he was not told to do and was only interested in work programming the control system. That left the hard work, the field work, for us old-timers.

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My MSEE son started in January 2006 around $65k.  This was about $5k less than a woman MSEE in his class.

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"With an experienced engineer a company gets someone with a track record who knows how to solve real world problems."


True, my boss kids me that I'm too expensive, I reply that I'm the biggest bargain he has smile.

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