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Or you could have moved to the petrochemical industry, where you would have been paid more than any software engineer anywhere...
by kabouseng 13y ago
Or you could have moved to the petrochemical industry, where you would have been paid more than any software engineer anywhere...
- nostrademons 13y agoIs that really true? This article [1] lists a top 10% petrochemical engineer's salary as $146,000. A fairly skilled senior software engineer at, say, Google can easily pull in $250-300K in total comp, and a programmer on Wall Street or independent consultant with good domain knowledge in wealthy industries like banking can pull in $300-500K/year. That's not even counting talent acquisitions, which can go for $1M/engineer/year. [1] http://work.chron.com/salary-petrochemical-engineer-4334.html http://work.chron.com/salary-petrochemical-engineer-4334.htm...
- eof 13y agoyeah but those wallst and google jobs are not top 10%.. probably closer to top .5%
- kabouseng 13y ago@Nostrademons Ok clearly I am out of touch then. But seriously, how many SE really gets paid 250k+, even at Google? Quants is in my mind the same as the petrochemical industry tough, rediculous salaries so that one I can believe.
- gohrt 13y agoOnes with about ~10 years good industry experience, or with several years of good Google experience+equity.
- akg_67 13y agoActually, it was petrochemical company, one of the largest. And no, petrochemical industry doesn't pay much more than software profession. Comparing with my friends who are still doing ChE jobs, If I was still in petrochemical, I most probably be getting paid little less than what I am being paid now, but working much more harder, longer and more stressed.