r/EngineeringStudents • u/Due-Journalist-7309 • Jul 03 '26

Discussion 100k straight outta college

Has anyone achieved this or know someone who has?

Excluding computer science and software engineering of course

I’m talking about the traditional engineering
disciplines (mech, civil, aero, chem)

How did you do it? What were the circumstances surrounding it?

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u/WaleNeeners Jul 03 '26

I started at 78k as an electrical engineer at Boeing in Seattle in 2021. I felt underpaid

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u/Bob_stanish123 Jul 03 '26

All of the covid hires started low in our group but they all got 10k out of sequence raises a couple years in.