These are the highest-paying college majors, 4 years after graduation—many pay over $100,000

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Anonymous wrote:This is the dumbest post and such narrow minded thinking l. The world needs people with all kinds of skills and talents. Engineers may have built the iPhone but would it have been so wildly successful without the designers who made it appealing and the marketing teams who sold it to the public? Vaccine researchers may develop a vaccine but without people with the know how to manufacture it at scale and people who can communicate its safety and efficacy and lawyers to see it through the regulatory process, it won’t get made or used. Surely engineers wear clothing someone who went to fashion school designed and listen to music and read books and watch tv shows created by musicians and artists and writers. They send their kids to schools to be taught by education majors, and when their kids are showing signs of ADHD send them to neuropsych testing run by people who were probably psychology undergrads. They dine at restaurants run by culinary school grads and travel to places they only know about because they read about them blogs or articles written by English majors. They go hiking on trails kept safe by forest rangers who were environmental studies or forestry majors and their kids grandkids may have a shot at living on a planet fit for human habitation because of polysci and French double majors who work on global treaties to protect the environment.

If you value money above all else, do what you do. But to mock those who choose lower paid careers who produce things you use and benefit from all the time is really obnoxious.

We are all going to need a habitable planet, and our kids will too.

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This is anecdotal, but I dated a guy in my 20's who was an electrical engineer who made 80K which at the time seemed astronomically high. We are still friends so I know he ended up topping out at 150K (which is what he still makes today in his 50's at a big aerospace company). By age 35, I was making three times his salary that in an business-related field that used my English degree. I think engineers with just undergrad degrees do make more early, but as my ex says, it is comfortable enough that a lot of them don't seek grad or advanced degrees. He regrets this. It was kind of a weird "silver handcuffs."

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Anonymous wrote:Same after 10+ years

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/20/highest-paying-college-majors.html

The college majors that pay the most for mid-career workers

Top 10 majors by median salary for graduates who are 35-45 years old
The table shows the top 10 college majors that pay the most for mid-career workers.

Chemical engineering $120K
Computer engineering $114K
Aerospace engineering $112K
Electrical engineering $109K
Computer science $105K
Mechanical engineering $105K
Miscellaneous physical sciences $104K
Industrial engineering $100K
Miscellaneous engineering $100K
Civil engineering $100K

And remember, folks, this is a list of undergrad degrees only. So, no need to post, "But I was an English major, and now I'm a lawyer earning 5x that much".

So the vet in the OP post didn't need grad school? And non of the engineers here got a masters?

most engineering majors don't need a graduate degree to earn six figures. Yes, engineering majors make more than English majors -- undergrad.

Look at the starting salary of engineering majors? It's already close to six figures. 10 years later, their salaries would hit above six figures. English majors generally need a graduate degree to make six figures.

My point is that by including vets, there must be grad degrees in the mix. Many engineers get them, so now you can't distinguish between strictly undergrad and those who also have grad. Also, I didn't say anything about English. Why such a beef with English? And, why the constant rehashing of these lists. People can be successful with all sorts of degrees. They carry their own costs and benefits that can't really be measured by lists like this.

They must be an engineer who did poorly in English since they couldn't comprehend your post, PP. LOL!!

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Anonymous wrote:This is the dumbest post and such narrow minded thinking l. The world needs people with all kinds of skills and talents. Engineers may have built the iPhone but would it have been so wildly successful without the designers who made it appealing and the marketing teams who sold it to the public? Vaccine researchers may develop a vaccine but without people with the know how to manufacture it at scale and people who can communicate its safety and efficacy and lawyers to see it through the regulatory process, it won’t get made or used. Surely engineers wear clothing someone who went to fashion school designed and listen to music and read books and watch tv shows created by musicians and artists and writers. They send their kids to schools to be taught by education majors, and when their kids are showing signs of ADHD send them to neuropsych testing run by people who were probably psychology undergrads. They dine at restaurants run by culinary school grads and travel to places they only know about because they read about them blogs or articles written by English majors. They go hiking on trails kept safe by forest rangers who were environmental studies or forestry majors and their kids grandkids may have a shot at living on a planet fit for human habitation because of polysci and French double majors who work on global treaties to protect the environment.

If you value money above all else, do what you do. But to mock those who choose lower paid careers who produce things you use and benefit from all the time is really obnoxious.

Thank you this. Well said, and hopefully people understand every profession is needed and deserves respect.

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I do not believe that veterinary medicine should be anywhere near this list. So, now I’m questioning the other majors…

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Anonymous wrote:This is the dumbest post and such narrow minded thinking l. The world needs people with all kinds of skills and talents. Engineers may have built the iPhone but would it have been so wildly successful without the designers who made it appealing and the marketing teams who sold it to the public? Vaccine researchers may develop a vaccine but without people with the know how to manufacture it at scale and people who can communicate its safety and efficacy and lawyers to see it through the regulatory process, it won’t get made or used. Surely engineers wear clothing someone who went to fashion school designed and listen to music and read books and watch tv shows created by musicians and artists and writers. They send their kids to schools to be taught by education majors, and when their kids are showing signs of ADHD send them to neuropsych testing run by people who were probably psychology undergrads. They dine at restaurants run by culinary school grads and travel to places they only know about because they read about them blogs or articles written by English majors. They go hiking on trails kept safe by forest rangers who were environmental studies or forestry majors and their kids grandkids may have a shot at living on a planet fit for human habitation because of polysci and French double majors who work on global treaties to protect the environment.

If you value money above all else, do what you do. But to mock those who choose lower paid careers who produce things you use and benefit from all the time is really obnoxious.

First, the thread is about compensation, so I don't think it's that dumb to talk about compensation.

More importantly, I did not intend to mock anyone who choose careers with less financial rewards as they prioritizes other aspects. That is a good thing to do. What I don't like is this push to say how great STEM jobs are. To me it's implicit that a good career will give you a good income if someone, like a politician, pundit, business leader, is generally recommending a field. And to it looks as if STEM jobs are underpaid given how hard it is to get some those degree. Bottom line here is that if there is a need for more engineers and fewer lawyers and MBAs comparatively, engineers must make more money and be well compensated for choosing a harder degree. That's not the case right now in my mind.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not believe that veterinary medicine should be anywhere near this list. So, now I’m questioning the other majors…

Agree, but there is now a severe shortage of vets so compensation may have increased over the past several years beyod inflation.