<p>I want to know which aerospace companies have the best offers. I heard Lockheed gives the highest salary, while Boeing gives the best benefits? </p>
<p>How important are benefits? Aren't they all pretty similar? Can anyone break down the offers Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed, etc. gives?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, GE seems to have very good benefits.</p>
<p>GE is notorious for being low-paying. But their internal training and development system is excellent. Doing well at GE will open doors for you. Hence, GE could be seen as a long-term play. You'll make less money there than at competing companies, but if you do well, you will have greater opportunities in the future. </p>
<p>Boeing definitely has very cushy benefits, including, for select employees, the opportunity to get a full-time MBA WHILE being reimbursed for all tuition and reimbursement costs AS WELL AS RECEIVING FULL SALARY and... get this... won't make you sign an employment contract, meaning that the day you get your MBA, you can just quit Boeing and keep all the money. In other words, not only do you get an MBA for free, you can get 2 years of free salary for doing nothing. Now of course Boeing puts you under a strong 'moral' obligation to return to Boeing, and practically nobody actually takes the money and runs. But the point is, you could, and there is nothing that Boeing could do about it (other than to never hire you ever again, but that's a pretty weak punishment). This is probaby the best sponsorship package I have ever heard of.</p>
<p>sakky..are you sure? i never heard of the salary while getting full time mba at boeing. that just doesnt make sense to me.</p>
<p>oh, you mean for SELECT employees. so i'm guessing normal employees do not get mba and paid for it at same time, they just get their tuition paid?</p>
<p>what would one consider a good starting salary to be for a level one stress engineer comming from a top engineering school with a 3.8 GPA?</p>
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<p>I know some people at Boeing can get their full-time MBA tuition reimbursed if they go back to Boeing. But they have to go back to get this benefit. What generally happens is that you have to take a leave of absense from Boeing, and pay full freight for your MBA at first. If you go back, they will pay back some (perhaps all) of your tuition. </p>
<p>I don't know if Boeing offers this benefit to all employees, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. This is not tremendously unusual - many large companies offer similar MBA tuition reimbursement programs. The key difference between what I was talking about is that in this program, you're not only not getting your tuition paid upfront by Boeing, but even more importantly, you're not drawing a salary nor a living cost allowance (which is a lot) from Boeing while you're a student. That living cost allowance effectively gives you another $1500-2000 per month to play with, tax free. </p>
<p>And the biggest difference of all is that to get the 'regular' benefit, you have to go back to Boeing. The sponsorship benefit requires none of that, meaning that you really can take the money and just run. Meaning that if you're sponsored, and you decide that you'd really rather not go back to Boeing at all, but instead would rather be an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, you can just quit Boeing the day you graduate, and KEEP ALL OF THE MONEY. Hence, that's probably something like $200k-250k that Boeing would be handing you for free (2 years of salary, 2 years of MBA costs, 2 years of living costs). </p>
<p>Now let me reiterate that I find doing such a thing to be deeply unethical, as Boeing has clearly invested a great deal of money in you with a great deal of trust, and unrequited, that would be a deep breach of ethics. But my point is, there is no legal reason that prevents you from doing exactly what I have just described.</p>