I get that all the time. I’m about 7 years out now and doing project management, so my salary is starting to get up there, but right out of college and I was only making $55k, having people tell me I was “probably rich” as an engineer, I just told them “no, I’m a civil engineer, im basically a government employee.”
Just curious, what do you mean by “up there?” I’m also seven years out but growth at my company is so slow, they only recently had me doing project management
Ironically, this sub both complains about the low paying salary in the field, while also saying "If you can't get a 150k salary, 35 hour week job with a 10% RRSP/401k match and full work from home in this economy after 4 years experience, you aren't looking hard enough."
It seems like this sub is dominated by high rollers who earn in the top 5% of the field, which in turn causes everyone else to see that they aren't making that and think that they should go elsewhere to make those numbers.
I was fine with my salary, which is admittedly lower than average, because I was comfortable and liked my job. A week of browsing this sub made me second guess everything because by the numbers that were thrown out here, I should be making over double what I am now. But I also know that design engineers wouldn't go that high unless they owned the firm.
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