EE Charlotte 55K 50-60hrs

9/14/2005 11:45:01 PM

I got a new jeorb!

Cytogenetics Trainee
$13.20/hr +10% for working 2nd shift.
At least I'll be gettin benefits tho.

I need a masters

9/15/2005 9:58:18 AM

BSME

estimator for mechanical contractor

$50k w/good benefits..in nyc though.

9/15/2005 12:47:45 PM

Major: BS Computer Science
Job: Lead Developer
Starting Salary: $42,000

9/15/2005 1:15:54 PM

My father worked there in Rocky Mount How's Reed Hildreth?

Quote :

"Major: Forest Management Job: NC Forest Service - Nash County Service Forester Salary: $28,157"

[Edited on September 15, 2005 at 2:15 PM. Reason : a]

9/15/2005 2:14:16 PM

landscape architecture

30k

which i heard on the news is the median income for the united states, so i guess i'm not doing to bad

[Edited on September 16, 2005 at 2:36 PM. Reason : oh i do have a pretty sweet benefits package though]

9/16/2005 2:30:22 PM

major BUS
Salary 60,000
options trader

9/17/2005 11:18:10 AM

Major Nuclear Engineering (Ph.D.)
Job Process Development Engineer
Starting Salary $86,000
Hours/Week 50-60

Of course, you have to consider I live in San Jose. The $600,000 median house price was quite a shock.

9/17/2005 6:50:09 PM

Major: B.S. Computer Engineering
Job: Operations and Systems Analyst
Starting Salary: $50,000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Hours per week: 40-60

I turned down a job for $54k near Baltimore, MD.

[Edited on September 17, 2005 at 8:14 PM. Reason : ?]

9/17/2005 8:14:03 PM

BS Geological Sciences.

Salary: I'm a baller.

9/18/2005 11:28:44 PM

BSEE/BSCPE
enough to answer the hour question to which i reply: as many as it takes to do what i need to. varies from 30-50/week. i'll have 5-6 hours days and i'll have days where i stay till 8 or so and once i went in at 9pm to help somebody w/ something. its not about hours, its about doing what youre supposed to on time and perfectly

and i live in raleigh (cheap), optional international travel, have a 10minute commute, and great boss/coworkers. yesss

9/19/2005 3:42:53 PM

Quote :

"Major: BS Computer Science Job: Lead Developer Starting Salary: $42,000"

Man, $42k for a Lead Developer with a BS CSC from here seems kinda low...

9/21/2005 7:24:11 PM

Major: Computer Science
Job: I enlisted in the Army hahaha
Starting Salary (as an E4, with two years in, which is where I'll be in May):
20k (base pay)
16k (housing allowance if I live off-post in Monterey, California)
3k (food allowance)
TOTAL: $38k (free medical/dental)

The average across the military for E4s with 2 years in is $35k... but you also have to factor in where you live, whether you make extra special/hazard/incentive pay, dependents, all sorts of other factors.

9/21/2005 7:32:11 PM

Bachelors & Masters in Accounting
Starting salary was about average.

9/23/2005 4:50:54 PM

City Planner $41K

9/23/2005 6:50:36 PM

Major: Industrial Engineer
Salary: Classified, but closer to 100K than 0K

9/24/2005 11:09:00 AM

Major: Dropout
Starting Salary: I do all right, a little above the median but with basically no benefits.

9/24/2005 10:27:14 PM

Aerospace Engineering,

40K a year (roughly after you count allowances)

It should be noted that I commissioned in the Navy, so a history major would be making as much as me.

9/25/2005 12:48:24 PM

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Starting Salary in 1996: $45k... however, the job had nothing to do with my major since I had given up hope on ever using that... yay for the .com boom

9/25/2005 4:04:34 PM

^^But think of the raises/promotions you'll get - autopromoted to O3 once you have TIS/TIG, so 5-8 years down the road you'll be making bank.

9/25/2005 9:31:13 PM

Major: BS Comp. Engineering, 2001
Start Sal: 52,000 at 40hr/wk + O.T. (in Raleigh)
Job: Control Systems & Instrumentation Design Engineer

[Edited on October 6, 2005 at 5:14 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2005 5:13:45 PM

Major: Computer Engineering (2001)
I'm a nuclear trained navy officer
last year I made $47k
this year i've already made that, promotions are the bomb

10/10/2005 12:08:45 AM

BS Poultry Science -- starting salaries around 30K

ADN
depends

looked up salary for lenox hill hospital in NYC -- starting salary for 06 is 64k

starting salary at the VA 43k with rapid promotions
starting salary at Fed Medical center is 36k with a 5k sign on bonus

not sure yet what Duke, Rex, Wakemed, or UNC pays

10/10/2005 8:02:22 PM

what do you do with poultry science...somewhat a dietician?

10/10/2005 9:28:57 PM

you can go on to get a masters in

nutrition
genetics
physiology

go to vet, med, pharmacy, optometry, school etc


or go work in the poultry industry in many capacities

I was premed

10/11/2005 5:24:26 PM

Interestign post, well my undergrad. degree is Bachelors in Criminology/International Studies, and Im in my 2nd year of grad school for Sports Management & International Marketing at North Carolina Central University in Durham. I'm salaried, my apartment is paid for(including all utilities plus cable & internet connection), my tuition is covered, my meal plans is covered, monthly per diem of $500, and I have my own office(I have a graduate assistantship and a teaching assistantship)...and in reference to BobbyDigitals's "it's in bad taste to post comments about one's salaries...it's not bad taste to state one's salaries if one does not mind in the first place..it's if people pry and the person there asking it of does not want to state it.

10/24/2005 1:15:20 PM

Quote :

"20k (base pay) 16k (housing allowance if I live off-post in Monterey, California) 3k (food allowance) TOTAL: $38k (free medical/dental)"

Good thing you aren't an accountant.

10/24/2005 2:17:24 PM

one of my good friends just got offered 65k starting for her EE degree. I think the location was boston if I remember correctly

10/27/2005 10:58:13 PM

^reflected glory!

10/28/2005 12:16:29 AM

30-50hrs wk
55k salary plus
9k car allowance plus
quarterly sales bonus plus
med/dential plus company expense for home internet and phone
and finally i must spend 350 per month in entertainment for my customers.. .golf and food. i love my job and company. no we are not hiring.

11/10/2005 6:54:35 PM

CPE dropout
Landscape Company Owner
This year 50+k
Company pays any or all benefits
Work all the time

11/10/2005 10:44:13 PM

BS CSC 2001
52K - San Jose Ca (silicon valley)

MS CSC 2004
62K - Raleigh

[Edited on November 14, 2005 at 11:34 AM. Reason : .]

11/14/2005 11:34:19 AM

Major: BUS MGMT / PSY
Starting Salary: 39,000

11/14/2005 1:11:18 PM

Major: Computer Science
Actual Job: Finance - Cost Estimating (yes, I too have no idea how I ended up in finance)
Employer: Fortune 50 company
Starting Salary: $51k

The benefits make up for it though. Full medical, dental, and all continuing education costs.

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 10:30 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2005 10:29:41 AM

major: bs biology : ba chemistry
starting salary: anywhere from 28k - 38k starting, but it's a sharp increase after this.... every year you get bumped up almost 10k, not including bonuses.... i'll probably be somewhere in the clinical trials field...

11/17/2005 5:43:52 AM

^ CRA's with a couple of years experience make bank

11/17/2005 2:14:40 PM

EE in Charlotte
55k
40 hrs/wk

11/18/2005 9:11:31 AM

you sonuvabitch

11/18/2005 2:44:55 PM

Quote :

"BS CSC 2001 52K - San Jose Ca (silicon valley)"

holy crap - how did you survive on 52k in San Jose?

11/19/2005 1:20:24 AM

Major: B.S. Computer Engineering
Starting Salary: $40,000 (before taxes), $28,000 (after taxes )

11/19/2005 1:33:53 AM

Major: Business Admin.
Starting in the $40s

11/19/2005 7:38:36 AM

Major: BSME Dec 2002
Starting salary below average of 47800 but more than 40000 as a field engineer so I got a vehicle and overtime. Got a 1.5% cost of living adjustment after 6 months. Company gives everyone raises at the same time. Moved into an office job (software engineer) within the company a year later and they tried to give me a 4% increase. After I went home and made some calculations I was going to be spending $6 more a week in gas so they changed it to 9%. Lets keep in mind they are still letting me work overtime because "could not get a higher salary approved" so they were doing me a "favor". Now with the new overtime law they stripped my overtime and gave me no more money Engineers are exempt from overtime pay.

http://www.nclabor.com/wh/overtime.htm
http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/ESA/Title_29/Part_541/29CFR541.3.htm


All I've got to say is they better take care of me when raises come in a couple months.

11/20/2005 9:32:10 AM

Major: BS Economics, '02

Then: Law Degree, Villanova

Starting Salary About 3 times what it would have been if I had gone to work straight out of school in '02.

12/2/2005 1:01:53 PM

How was Nova law? I had that on my short list but I decided not to apply. I probably still could but living near Philly didn't excite me. I'm aiming for New York City or Boston right now (got into Northeastern a year ago but I couldn't afford it at the time..)...

12/2/2005 1:28:49 PM

Villanova is a great school. My wife (fiance at the time) is from about an hour west of Philly and we had already decided to move up here before I decided to go to law school. So my choices were Penn, Temple and Villanova. I got into Temple and Villanova, chose Villanova and am glad I did. The people at Villanova are great--students and professors. And, in my humble opinion and from my experience, Villanova students have a great reputation in the work force. I had quite a few offers after my first year. We're also building a new building, which will probably be done in a couple of years, and will bump our ranking up to match the level of education that you get at Villanova.

If you're looking for the mega-firm life, New York is obviously a better legal environment, and Boston probably is too. I was looking for a big firm, but not the Skadden Arps of the world. I interviewed with 19 Philly area firms, all of which had somewhere between 400 and 2,000 lawyers. I decided to accept an offer with a firm with about 400 lawyers and an office in the far western suburbs--closer to where we built our house. For me, it will be the best of both worlds--big firm pay and resources in a smallish (20 attorneys), more down-to-earth office environment.

Good luck.

12/2/2005 2:07:15 PM

Major: EC
Company: http://Accenture.com
Starting Salary: 55K + Signing Bonus . . . the good ole 90s

12/4/2005 7:43:59 PM

i wonder if anybody told the truth in this thread

i doubt it

12/4/2005 8:54:25 PM

Major: Graphic Design
Job: Designer
Starting Salary: $45,000+

My next job:
Don't know
Salary: Probably around $36,000+-5K

12/4/2005 10:19:05 PM

^at least you are moving in the right direction

12/4/2005 11:13:12 PM

12/5/2005 8:54:06 AM