I can’t give the best answer as I’m funded by my funding bodies who give me £13, 500 per year to survive off and I’m free to take on some extra work to help make ends meet.
Although an engineering graduate usually starts off around £20,000 per year and as the years go by they will be promoted and have the potential to earn substantially more than that.
The average expected income for a graduate with a Bachelors degree is somewhere between 19,000 and 23,000, if you leave university with a masters this usually gives you the opportunity to earn much more from the word go: between 20,000 to 30,000, depending on the company.
The first few years typically bring quite a few pay rises as you prove yourself to the company. With the opportunity to keep progressing as your career does.
Just to add a specific number to the answer above, I just checked with Reed, a big recruitment company, and they say that the average engineering salary that they’ve advertised this year is £35,285. Obviously though, starting salaries aren’t this big, that’s probably skewed upwards a bit by the kinds of jobs that Reed advertise, and it depends on both your skills (like the others mention) and the area that you’re in.
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