<p>Question is title.</p>
<p>Engineers </p>
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<p>I don’t think you can make a blanket statement. We’ve had a consulting engineering business since 1999. Our accountant started his firm around the same time. Back then, his hourly rate and ours were identical. Now he charges almost 50% more than we do! He has more overhead, but still! From comments we get from our client, we know we can’t charge more or we’d lose a lot of business.</p>
<p>We still make an excellent income, so I shouldn’t complain.</p>
<p>There are so many factors and variables for the answer to this question. Funny, I was at the most recent Washington Redskins game with an accountant who during the mortgage bubble was making a ton of money because he dabbled in doing mortgages on the side while being a tax accountant. Now he tells me that that side mortgage income is gone and buried 8 feet into the ground and tells me about how “he would like to be doing government engineering contracting” like I do.</p>
<p>I work with a lot of “cleared” engineers supporting the Feds and some are “independent” contractors billing at $120/hour to $150/hour. Not bad for a 4-year degree. Remember, nowadays in accounting, folks have to do 150 credit-hours just to sit for the CPA.</p>
<p>Globaltraveler “There are so many factors and variables for the answer to this question.”</p>
<p>Agreed. Why does anyone think that if you go into a particular profession that you are going to make X number of dollars? I know accountants that make 20k per year and accountants that can make 1million+ per year. Obviously, they aren’t doing the same thing. The first one is a worker bee in a low cost area of the country and the second is more of a business advisor with a partnership interest in his consulting firm.</p>
<p>Whoever becomes CEO first… and they’re both very possible with both majors</p>
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