<p>well I have been always hoping that recent talks about oil industry being flooded with engineers are not true.
but can it affect the salaries that much ?
well everyone would say that even if its true,it will hardly affect the salaries but oh mon Dieu!</p>
<p>i had checked payscale for US,Canada and UAE about seven months back when i first learnt about this field and was amazed to see ~83k starting figure in the US and ~72k-75k in canada.
anyone who might have gone through it as well might agree with me.
one would well like to go to the site after reading this and confirm that it now starts with around ~60k in US and 57-59k in canada.
even payscale UAE has followed the same trend.
and now those who say payscale is not accurate I beg to differ.
is something wrong?
well if its to do something with the site,i disagree.
well there are many others similar to payscale and I bet they won't rely on payscale for their statistics right ?</p>
The link you posted seems to show a salary range of $61k to $183k, which is actually higher than either of the links I posted. They don’t actually state a mean or a median, but it looks like it would be somewhere around $120k.</p>
<p>I’m not sure of the point you’re trying to make here, possibly due to the poor vocabulary and punctuation in your posts. Are you attempting to argue that they make less? Because that link you just posted shows the opposite.</p>
<p>183k is for the ones with 20+ years of experience (my link shows there are 14% of them) and 61k for the ones with less than one year experience(11%) : just a calculated guess.
and my link even shows ‘starting’ salaries offered by renowned companies if you scroll down.
I am concerned with the ‘starting’ salaries and well this is oil industry,experienced ones will get the money even if the recruitment stops!
after all its 20 ‘+’ years of experience!</p>
<p>I guess if it’s on the internet it’s fact eh tim. I made about 90k from my co-op job. I have friends making 100k out of school. I know many people with a high school education with a couple of tickets making 100k in Fort Macmurray. 57-59k for a PetrE is ridiculous. Maybe if you had a 2.3 GPA.</p>
<p>What I find is too many freshmen/sophomores picked Petro Engineering because of hype of money and living lifestyle. Once they really know what they are in for, many will say it is not worth it (due to factors such as starting families, constant relocations etc…)…</p>
<p>you<em>of</em>eh:
do you a really mean that someone with a petro degree having 2.3 gpa and just a high school graduate will make equal money working on an oil field ?
lol at least thats what your posts say.
if thats true,then I might not attend university lol.
and 90k for someone like you who has just stared university(not sure just a guess) sounds ridiculous.even in that case I might quit university and enjoy the 90k job for the rest of my life lol.
its better to get a 90k job without a degree rather than a 59k one with a degree and 2.3 gpa lol.
lol I might want to reconsider my decision of attending university after this.</p>
<p>Well clearly you know nothing about the oil industry. Yes there are many guys with just a high school education and a few odd courses making 70-80-90-100k+ a year working in oil. There are many guys with no University degree making a lot more than some PetrE’s also. Some welders and truck drivers are making 200k/year in oil. I’m not sure who told you more education = more money, but that’s certainly not the case. </p>
<p>I didn’t just start University. I’m currently doing an internship and I’ll be heading back to school for my final year in the fall. The 90k was for a 16month internship.</p>
<p>you<em>of</em>eh is right. My friends brother works at the North Slope and after 5 years of experience he makes 75k a year. He only has a High school diploma. We stayed at his luxary condominium over spring break, which is next to a ski resort. He even gets 2 weeks off every 2 weeks. He gets paid even when he isn’t working.</p>