<p>lol $100,000 after 5 years, you better be one good a** engineer</p>
<p>Engineering</a> Salary Calculator | EngineerSalary.com</p>
<p>I have not used it though. It requires email address and I hate it.</p>
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<p>It lowballed my salary by about 10K.</p>
<p>That's interesting aibarr. I inputted the information for a friend of mine who's a structural engineer and it was only $450 greater than her offer.</p>
<p>I have not heard of ChemE/EEs making 10-15k more than MEs/CivilEs.</p>
<p>Here are the statistics from my UG, UT-Austin.</p>
<p>Student</a> Interactive - Full-time Salary Survey</p>
<p>It looks that EE/ME/ChemE are pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Also, in terms of PetroE salaries I can confirm that they do make a good 10-15k more a year than the other engineering majors. At my old employer, they lumped all the EE/CHemE/Mech and non PetroE majors together and paid them the same. </p>
<p>The starting salary for a EE/ChemE/MechE was about 65-75k while PetroE got anywhere from 80-95k.</p>
<p>Of course more diverse factors come into play like program and the economy.</p>
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Also, in terms of PetroE salaries I can confirm that they do make a good 10-15k more a year than the other engineering majors. At my old employer, they lumped all the EE/CHemE/Mech and non PetroE majors together and paid them the same.
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I don't think my company is like that. The upstream oil industry is broken up into four engineering disciplines generally (drilling/completion/production/reservoir). If you are an ME/ChemE you can get hired into those jobs (in fact many companies do this regularly). However, these engineers will usually start lower in salary. The difference gradually goes away though as experience trumps the degree every time. The salary track is generally setup so all production engineers compete against other production engineers.</p>
<p>Mr. Payne,</p>
<p>You are right--ME/ChemE can easily be hired as a drilling or production engineer. These positions are often associated with PetroE majors and they do get paid accordingly. </p>
<p>When I mean ME/ChemE/EE I should of been more specific, if you are a Facilities Engineer (someone who isn't drilling, reservoir or production) they usually get paid the same amount.</p>
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Just curious, what do chemical engineers have to do with aerospace engineering?
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<p>Aerospace parts undergo all kinds of chemical processing. Like chemical milling, electroplating, anodizing, alodine, ultrasonic cleaning, treatment with acids, molten salts, and various solvents. All of this chemical processing equipment is under the control of chemical engineers.</p>