<p>How easy is it to make 100,000 a year in this field? I am interested in all the engineering fields but i dont know which one to pick. not petro or nucleur. Which one would give me the highest pay other than those 2? Between Biomedical and electrical/electronics, which would be easier to make 6 figures because those two interest me the most.</p>
<p>Well in general, you dont choose a job based on its pay. Although I think electrical engineers make more money on average. Yet Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest growing jobs right now. There is also better job security.</p>
<p>CS/CE tend to pay the best. When you say you want to make six figures, when are you expecting to get to that point? As any engineering major it should be easy to get there mid-career after working like 10-15 years. If you want to start off making that much, then you better be one of the best. It also depends on location. Someone making $100k in Silicon Valley is comparable to someone who makes $75k here in Seattle based on living costs.</p>
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<p>Whoa! That makes working at Facebook look worse than any random local tech firm. And I thought Ann Arbor was expensive. </p>
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<p>Now this is just silly.</p>
<p>By the way, there are issues when you try to compare two cities with a large difference in housing costs. Housing becomes a lower share of your expenditures in a cheaper city. </p>
<p>Anyway, as others said. Your best bet at a 100K job fresh out of undergrad would be to be a CS or CompE major, be really awesome at it, and go work at Facebook or Goldman. </p>
<p>Biomedical engineering is an adapting field. In 20 years it won’t be what it is today. We might be able to predict what ChemE will be. We might be able to predict what CivE will be. We can’t really predict what BME will be.</p>