<p>i know BS in engineering has the highest pay of college graduates. BUT can engineers make like 500,000-1mil ever in their life. If yes,, then how??</p>
<p>Entrepreneurship is generally the ticket. For example, YouTube had existed for one year before it got sold to Google for $1.65 billion (founded 2005, sold 2006). While a lot of that money obviously went to the venture capital investors, I think it's safe to say that all of the founders and early employees got rich. </p>
<p>But it doesn't even have to be that dramatic. I know some people who have started their own tech companies and later sold them for a few million. This obviously tends to be most common in the software and Internet industries.</p>
<p>Can anyone make 500,000 - 1 mil with a bachelors degree and no entrepreneurship?</p>
<p>CEO, investment banking...i dunno. But that mainly applies in the US only. You're gonna have to go into management one way or another I'd think. Unless you're doin Entertainment related stuff. Or if you're Warren Buffet.</p>
<p>Why do you need that much money? I'm fine with a salary of 100,000.</p>
<p>Not as an engineer. Computer science in investment bank maybe, but only in management.</p>
<p>If you want to make that much money, you shouldn't be in engineering in the first place.</p>
<p>What's with all the greedy people nowadays?</p>
<p>He asked if an engineer can make 500k-1mil IN THEIR LIFE. So the answer is yes, likely much more than that.</p>
<p>sure engineers may look like they make alot compared to others. They make a whopping 50K a year, but what about finance majors who will start out at 45K and get a signing bonus of close to 100K and Bonuses all year long that bring them close to 400K a year.</p>
<p>Engineers are smart, but idiots when it comes to money. Im studying Computer engineering/computer science., but never planned to be a engineer I plan to get my MBA and go directly into management.</p>
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<p>I have never heard of any finance guys right out of undergrad getting 100k signing bonuses. </p>
<p>Furthermore, you are only looking at a small subset of finance majors. Sure, the very elite finance majors will get nice offers from investment banks, hedge funds, and the like. But let's face it. There are a lot of mediocre, no-name finance programs out there. If you're studying finance at some 4th tier no-name school, you're probably not going to get an offer from Goldman Sachs. I think it's fairly clear that an engineering student from a no-name school is better off than a finance student from a no-name school. </p>
<p>Furthermore, the top engineers are perfectly capable of nabbing banking offers. I know plenty of engineers at MIT who went right to Wall Street. Heck, if you're successful doing that, you may not even need to get an MBA.</p>
<p>what do you do lil_killer129? and what was your major?</p>
<p>There are about 10% finance majors who are actually rich. Most of them work at banks with a mediocre salary. While engineers atleast, can make decent money even if they're not rich.</p>
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ditto, you can make decent sums as a software developer in banks, and work your way up the management ladder.</p>