Are Mechanical Engineers Less Paid Than Others?
Studying Mechanical Engineering is a very nerve wracking. To become a licensed Mechanical engineer one has to spend his 4 years in learning Microprocessors, Thermodynamics , stress , strain, beam calculation and more…After successful completion 75% mechanical engineers are destined to work with lower wages as beginners. In a comparison between beginners level IT and that of a mechanical engineer one can witness there is a huge variation between their salary levels. The salary of a beginner level IT employee is 4 times higher than a core fresher engineering employee. On examining the facts from many resources and also Quora, we found a huge number of clarifications and amazing statements on this topic.
Everyone is of the opinion that the primary reason why mechanical engineer is less paid because the equipments, instruments, tools and machineries used for on board production are 10 times expansive than using in IT industry. Simply it says that the setup cost in core industry is higher. This makes companies pay much less to freshers. Moreover the freshers are not allowed to operate machines at the beginning stages. Many mechanical engineers say that they feel idle even at the peak working hours. But to utter surprising fact: a 10 year experiences mechanical engineer gets twice the salary that of an IT engineer of the same work experience.
fact is that there is no opening for a BE mechanical engineer in any industries to startup. Then only we can talk about highest or lowest salary of a person. Even if one is lucky to get a job he will be paid a pittance say just less than 10k, which is itself very much on a higher side. Another of the opinion that the highest paid mechanical engineer is the oil and gas engineer only if you work abroad. If you want to work in INDIA then one should go to ONGC. It gives the best starting salary to a mechanical engineer around 1.3L per year. If you want to earn a handsome money in the coming years, go for a MNC.If you want to work as A class officer then go for IES exam and crack it.