What was your starting salary when you graduated?

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<p>I want to know how much money you graduates of engineering made after you got your bachelors. What degree did you get? Which school did you graduate from? What yeardid you graduate? What was your starting salary?</p>

<p>Could you answer like the following example:</p>

<p>Bachelors in Mechanical
UCLA
2008
$70,000</p>

<p>You can then make more statements or comments about your education, career, experience, etc.</p>

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<p>Bump. I am interested in this as well</p>

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<p>You realize that is rude to ask and almost as rude to answer in most cases, right?</p>

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<p>^ Exactly. Also, good luck getting a straight answer if anyone posts an answer to this.</p>

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<p>what bonehead said. pretty brash if you ask me.</p>

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<p>Chillout guys…This is something everyone was interested in when they were in school.</p>

<p>OP-
You’re probably not going to get a straight answer from people on here so you might want to just look up the avg starting salaries from your school or nationwide.</p>

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<p>haha, wow. it’s like you can’t say anything without getting criticized or attacked here on CC. i thought that was only supposed to happen in real life.
my sympathies to the OP.</p>

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<p>How was it an attack? Plain and simple, it is considered rude to ask people about their salaries. That is just the way society is. If you tell people your salary, it is also often considered to be rude because it can be misconstrued easily. It is best to avoid the topic.</p>

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<p>Sorry if I came off as being rude. Where I am from in the U.S. it is not considered rude to ask. I guess I did probably waste my time asking this question. I just wanted information from primary sources as online stats are averages and usually not starting salaries. Anyway if you don’t want to answer you don’t have to. Have a good day.</p>

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<p>I don’t mind sharing mine! $24,000 in 1986, lol. And that was with a master’s degree from Texas! I remember telling the interviewer that “24 or 26 would be OK,” so of course they gave me the lower end. Learned my lesson! When I first started, a draftsman accidentally got my pay stub and said, “You’re not being paid enough!” Fortunately, my salary was increased regularly and generously.</p>

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<p>Rude?! This is an online forum where everyone is hidden behind a screen name. This is exactly the place for these kinds of questions. Why would anyone be afraid to say it to people they don’t know and where no one knows who you are.</p>

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<p>Precisely why you will not get a straight answer (save for MaineLonghorn’s response).</p>

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<p>BSEE
UMass Amherst
$52k in 2003
Job on Long Island</p>

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<p>Well I am hoping people are on here to help others. Not much of a point to lie on an online forum, while some do I think most people would be honest.</p>

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<p>You can find some info for individual schools if you do a little googling. Here’s the page for my undergrad’s salary info: [College</a> of Engineering - Career and Professional Development Center - Carnegie Mellon University](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/cit.html]College”>http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/post-grad-survey/cit.html)</p>

<p>My actual salary is closer to Maine’s because I decided on grad school instead of industry. :)</p>

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<p>Is this an American culture (or is it just some people’s preference)? I never asked any adults, as a student, however.
I am still very young so I don’t know if the Chinese shares the same preference…
But this is an open and public forum. I think his intention is not rude.</p>

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<p>MaineLonghorn, DH has you beat–
SB in Aero (or as we say around here, the other AE)
MIT 1981
$23K
It seemed like a fortune at the time.</p>

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<p>Here is Cornell’s post grad survey info – [Cornell</a> Engineering : Post Graduate Reports](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/statistics/Post-Graduate-Reports.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/statistics/Post-Graduate-Reports.cfm)</p>

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<p>I’d suggest looking at your school’s salary statistics. Any solid program will post salary stats for their grads. This to me offers u the most reliable insight since it’s based on your peers at school. </p>

<p>My school even goes as far as to show where grads go geographically to show what you should expect from locations with higher cost of living. </p>

<p>Visit your school’s engineering careers services : )</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.eng.iastate.edu/ecs/employers/Fall2008%20Salary.html[/url]”>http://www.eng.iastate.edu/ecs/employers/Fall2008%20Salary.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Waaaah…itz woooong to ask people abowt their sawawees, sociwety said soooo. With all candour, it is an anonymous forum; it is not as if I can track people down and ridicule them for their monetary paucity. If nothing else, the culture is a worm-eaten corpse, and has been that way ever since the '60s; that is a gravestone upon which I do not mind taking a leak.</p>

<p>That said, I cannot find salary information on my school’s website; under what category would it usually be under?</p>