I just got off a two year engineering graduate scheme. I’m curious to find out how much other companies pay for an engineer right after the grad scheme. Any thoughts ? It’ll really help me understand where my offered salary stands in the market!
Mechanical/ electrical/ Aerospace
Thanks in advance
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Could you be a bit more vague?
It really depends quite alot company to company based on what your actually doing and involved with.
After 2 years you should know how to do some stuff though, so would say somewhere between 30-40k, likely closer to 30k than 40k though.
Also if your in a big company, which i expect you are as you’ve done an official grad scheme I’d expect salaries are defined in the company structure, so not really any wiggle room for negotiation.
Due to you being purposefully vague… go on “the engineer” website and find out. They do a yearly salary check.
If you dont think you’re being vague, it will show you just how vague you are actually being.
For you, my guess would be around minimum wage or slightly better, once you’ve learned a few basic principles of engineering things will improve, I’d start working on the basics like clarity and precision and how important they are in engineering, for example ¼Whitworth and M6 threads are vaguely similar but totally incompatible.
Glassdoor (website) is your friend for this type of thing.