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<p>But again, the issue is not regarding the pay within the lower ranks of finance, but that those lower ranks opens career doors into other cushy high-paying fields, such as venture capital or private equity. Nowadays, to enter PE, you almost always need a prior stint in investment banking. </p>
<p>But the same cannot be said for engineering. You spend a stint as a chemical process engineer, and you haven’t really opened any doors to high-paying cushy jobs available to you.</p>