<p>Which school, then? LOL</p>
<p>Try google it???</p>
<p>I don’t think its rude to ask on an anonymous message board where people are unlikely to ever know much less meet each other. To ask this in person, yes. But on a message board? No.</p>
<p>jwxie - I constructed a google search for ‘electrical engineer average salary’ for ODU.edu, all that came out was gibberish. Why don’t you give it a shot?</p>
<p>[PayScale</a> - Old Dominion University School Salary, Average Salaries](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Old_Dominion_University/Salary]PayScale”>Old Dominion University Salary | PayScale)</p>
<p>I don;t know how credible it is, but lol took me less than a minute</p>
<p>851 views and nobody who graduated recently gave their starting salary. I don’t know if it’s rude or wrong, but it certainly appears people aren’t comfortable giving it.</p>
<p>[NACE</a> Salary Calculator and Salary Data Program](<a href=“http://www.jobsearchintelligence.com/NACE/salary-calculator-intro/]NACE”>http://www.jobsearchintelligence.com/NACE/salary-calculator-intro/)</p>
<p>Few people want to report they are earning peanuts.</p>
<p>jwxie - I was hoping to find data reported from ODU itself; I am not sure about the sample sizes on PayScale…it seems a bit low if anything else.</p>
<p>Enginox - that certainly would skew the data.</p>
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<p>you can’t conclude either, given the nature of this board. it attracts MOSTLY prospective engineering majors, so naturally they will not have graduated yet.</p>
<p>I am not being a jerk. Clearly there are a lot if people who aren’t comfortable giving this information out. Only one recent grad has posted stats.</p>
<p>Call me what you will but the lack of responses seems to support me.</p>
<p>You can argue that most people inherent don’t have jobs yet all you want, but I know for a fact that a lot more than 1 person is a recent grad with a job.</p>
<p>Let’s stop the attacks. Whether it is a message board or in person, it is still not something people like talking about. The only really way to get good information is via anonymous survey. Sure we don’t know anyone’s real life name or anything on here, but it still isn’t an example of anonymity for those of us who post regularly. Right or wrong, people who frequent this forum still have their own online reputation and egos to protect. So in general, this is still going to be a tough topic even on a message board. It isn’t truly anonymous. In order for it to be truly anonymous, a person can’t have any name attached to it that would affect how they are viewed.</p>
<p>you can always make a throw-away account.</p>
<p>those online surveys (i.e. ga-tech) should be enough.</p>
<p>I will never understand the sensitivity to talking about salaries. It doesn’t take too much research to find those things out for most people. If you are uncomfortable talking about it, that’s your prerogative. But most people are kidding themselves if they think their salaries truly are a secret. (Bonuses can be a different story.)</p>
<p>FWIW, my starting salary with a fresh BS Pet. Eng. degree in 1982 was $36,500. </p>
<p>A good friend’s son who is a 2010 Pet. Eng. grad started in June with a salary of $86,000 and a $12,000 signing bonus. Another friend’s son with a 2010 Civil Eng. degree started a job in June with a $48,000 salary. Both kids had good grades and attended good colleges.</p>
<p>If you really want to make things interesting in the office, start giving out your salary information. </p>
<p>Talking about starting salaries from way back when, whatever. Talking freely about recent starting salaries, foolish IMHO. Some [many] co-workers will get hot and bothered to find out you are making x amount of dollars when they were offered less of a deal (if that is indeed the case). I have actually been commended by my employer for keeping my info quiet, rather than prancing around the office advertising what I make. Granted I’m not an engineering graduate at the moment, but it doesn’t matter what field one is in, it’s just not wise to do such a thing.</p>
<p>One final note - I understand we’re all talking about an “anonymous” forum and not the office. However, if one were to post all their stats, per the OP’s request, who’s to say someone won’t recognize the poster? You don’t know who’s looking at this. Someone could look at the stats and say, “wait a minute, that guy Joe who just started here went to that exact school with that exact graduation date in that exact major. He’s getting how much?!”</p>
<p>A more interesting question is ratio of starting salary to all college expenses.
BSAAE 1985 $29,000
4 yr college expense (rm, bd, tuition) $20,000
Ratio: 1.45</p>
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<p>OP left the questions to be vague. All OP asked for was for school, major, grad year, and starting salary. Nothing specific on name of company, region, ethnicity, gender, etc. so it would be hard to figure out who is posting unless you read all the post history and do a Google search on the username. Again, you can just make a throw-away account if you’re really worried.</p>
<p>I agree on keeping quite at the office regarding this kind of info.</p>
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<p>Wait so you honestly think that people would make a throw away account? That is looney.</p>
<p>Not exactly starting salary, but this website was mentioned on NPR recently: <a href=“http://www.glassdoor.com/[/url]”>http://www.glassdoor.com/</a> It has anonymous salary data which you might find useful.</p>
<p>“Few people want to report they are earning peanuts.”</p>
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<p>Exactly. Salary data from collleges is meaningless because those who make next to nothing generally do not report their salary. Only those with high salaries do, so the data is therefore inflated, sometimes drastically inflated. And this practice is present in ALL majors, not just engienering. It’s actualy the worst in law.</p>
<p>Also, how do we know that the engineering grads with high starting salaries took jobs in engineering. On the first page of the thread, there was a link to Carneige Mellon’s starting engineer salaries One was for $89,000. Really? I find that hard to believe. Chances are those grads are working in finance, not engineering.</p>
<p>$89,000 is not out of the realm of possibility for certain engineering jobs. Additionally, if a computer scientist (CMU’s claim to fame) takes a job in finance, they may very well be doing computer science still.</p>
<p>Still, even if someone does finance as a degreed engineer, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t count in the mean salary. It is still in the realm of possibilities for holders of an engineering degree.</p>
<p>You are just grasping at straws now.</p>
<p>Well, $89k is certainly a lot. Most of the data I have seen is in the $50s and $60s. Also, what about those with much lower salaries who did not report? I would love to see the averages if 100% of working graduates were counted. So no, I am not grasping at straws. Your the one who is relying on flawed data that cherry picks the highest earners.</p>