How to earn more money in Mechanical Engineering field?
Feb 20, 2021
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I'm am associate level test engineer earning less than 90k at a startup EV company in the Bay area. I am single and I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I think I'm not being paid enough and want to see what my options are to grow further.
I'm open to changing fields and want to change to a better company with good work life balance. I see that Reliability/ durability engineer roles have many overlapping job responsibilities. Any suggestions?
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Absolutely true that folks see their tc drop significantly on promos to 3. I see many ict4s making 270-300ish. Lower in Rel jobs.
Doesn’t seem fair comparison to L3 at google working lesser hours though.
If you stay in mechanical the most you can make per year in your life is 150k that too by job hopping and different techniques. Where as in IT you make that same amount in about three four years.
The thing that kills me is the number of software start ups IPOing and how many hardware/robotics start-ups in comparison? Not many. The opportunities are so much slimmer for us to break out of the set TC we can predict for our future