<p>what is the highest salary youve heard someone get right out of college ? state the amount,job and college.</p>
<p>Total monetary compensation or salary? Investment banking will pay the most including bonus.</p>
<p>In terms of straight salary, probably Petroleum Engineeringor or Computer Science (I’ve heard of bachelors of engineering seeing 90K+ salary). Nuclear Engineering I’d imagine is similar (but that’s just a guess).</p>
<p>I’m an incoming petrol major at LSU so trust me; most grads right now are coming nowhere near 90k… 30% of the graduating class didn’t graduate with jobs this semester, many of them got their offers pulled. I mean you work for Chevron in socal, so I’m sure you are well aware of the clot in recruiting.</p>
<p>All in comp I’d go with banking.</p>
<p>I laugh when I see discussions about Highest salaries. First, probably the highest salaries are probably in acting, IF YOU MAKE IT IN PICTURES. These folks can make $1,000,000++ per films. HOWEVER, the problem is that you probably have a .1% chance of making it, not to mention that it might not be right for you!</p>
<p>Investment banking probably has less than a 1% shot of geting into an IB firm. In addition, the long hours and major stress probably precludes many from becoming successful there too.</p>
<p>Moreover, a job might pay well to start but top off early, </p>
<p>My advice: find a profession that you will enjoy and be very competent in. Check the the long term monitary job security.</p>
<p>In real life, $60,000. Internet, $300,000. lol @ taxguy’s inability to spell monetary.</p>
<p>Pretty much all banks pay $70k now in US for new analysts btw.</p>
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More important is the amount of IB <em>hires</em> now compared to the recent boom years.</p>
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I haven’t disclosed where I work. You are free to speculate though.</p>
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<p>Back in the late 90’s, it was common for top CS and CompE majors to make six figures right out of college. One of the big-name programming companies had a “standard” offer of $150,000 to start for top CS students.</p>
<p>Now, Chemical Engineers typically start in the 70’s and work in very low cost-of-living areas (CoL is important - making $100,000/year isn’t that impressive when a “starter home” costs $700,000).</p>
<p>It is not uncommon for an actuarial analyst to start out making 70k+, provided you pass 2 exams and have a good GPA</p>