2013 Highest Paid Engineering Stream in US Labor market fact of the day: Petroleum engineering is the highest paid major for the College Class of 2013 at $93.5k Mark J. Perry | May 5, 2013, 5:00 pm According to a recent report on average starting salaries for the College Class of 2013 from the National Assocation of Colleges and Employers, the highest-paid major for this year’s college graduates are petroleum engineering majors, who are averaging starting salaries of $93,500. The overall average starting salary for all engineering graduates this year was $62,535, so the petroleum engineers are earning almost a 50% premium above their average engineering counterpart, and are starting at a salary more than twice the overall average of $44,928 for all college graduates in the Class of 2013. MP: Add petroleum engineering majors in the College Class of 2013 as another group in a very long list of beneficiaries of America’s shale revolution – they are earning starting salaries right out of college that are very likely higher than most of their college professors that helped them earn their degree. Even the average full professor at a Master’s category university earned a base salary of less than $93,000 during the 2012-2013 academic year.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:26:53 +0000
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