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Old 2012-12-24, 19:31   Link #25429
synaesthetic
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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone View Post
I think the problem is that the industrial sector hasn't shown much job growth in the last 30 years. That said, it could simply be that I'm living in the wrong country (and I know for a fact that the average engineering wage right out of college is something like 25k-30k).
For the US it's a bit higher. Somewhere between 40-50k for a bachelor's and a bit more (~60k) for a master's engineer. Granted this is electronic and computer engineering, not mechanical, so I'm not really sure about that.

I don't know how much my uncle made when he first was hired back in the 80s, but I'm sure it was probably a lot less than what he makes now (considering inflation, the devaluation of the dollar in the mid-80s and whatnot).
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