• Question: what is your monthly wage?

    Asked by LOLAPOOL to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 6 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by 543eneq36, mubarak, Hasan, 727eneq42, Chinedum, samira.xx, boss_aman, DIARRHOEA, $umm£r.
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      Graeme Burt answered on 6 Mar 2019: last edited 6 Mar 2019 2:49 pm


      Engineers are one of the most highly paid professions on average, just after Doctors but ahead of lawyers. A good engineer at the mid point in their career like myself will make twice the UK average.

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      Lesley Colquhoun answered on 6 Mar 2019:


      A mechanical engineer starting was was around £24-30k depending on the industry you moved into.

      Each year you are normalyl evaluated on your skills and experience and this can go up or down.

      I have been lucky enough to have learned alot in the last years and live comfortably and fall around average for my age and experience.

      unfortunately i can’t tell you what i actually make sorry!

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      Leah Morgan answered on 6 Mar 2019:


      I make about the average for an engineering graduate, but more than the average (non-engineering) graduate 🙂

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      Hannah Griffin answered on 11 Mar 2019:


      Graduates where I work get an annual salary of £26560 which is pretty good (just over £2000 per month before tax and pensions are taken off). To be honest any science or engineering degree is going to get you a better graduate salary than a non-STEM subject.

      After two years then most of our graduates get a salary increase assuming they are doing well.

      After a few years experience it is not uncommon for software engineers to be able to earn over £40000.

      But money isn’t everything. Think about other things you’d like in a job e.g. flexibility, number of holidays etc.

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