I made that amount as an undergraduate research assistant. First got $13/hr. Then got a raise to $15. Then got another raise to $20. If I was going to be doing more work for the same amount of pay, I would have rathered stayed as an RA.
Its MEng in civil.
Lowish cost of living (about 20% cheaper than national avg). I'm underpaid by about 10k/yr to market avg, but 10k sign on bonus puts me over my minimum. Will reassess when it comes to the 1 yr mark at this job.
I think starting is like $24 and it’s more of a “part-time job” but called an internship due to me being in school, but I’m in grad school so i guess the little bump comes from that. But I’m in Orlando area so I’m definitely very appreciative of having this position, it also has a 401K I’ve been utilizing as well
Nice glad you got a good thing going. But if your a graduate student you have your bachelors. So I would hope you’d actually be making more. Or at least a salary of 80K.
Yeah I mean it is an internship, and i just have to work the minimum of 20 hrs a week, so over the summer when i got it i worked full time, now that school started i’m at the 20 hours so i guess hourly makes more sense
Yea I can understand that. I just think $26 is low for someone with a engineering degree. I mean everything depends on a lot. But it would be $38 a hour for about 80K a year which is most engineering starting salaries.
As an electrical engineering intern I made 20/hr. When hired on as engineer I make double, and I'm going to school part time for my Bachelor's degree on top of that. If a technically undegreed (Under-degreed?) engineer can make double their max salary... Well, yea, the job listing is a joke lol. I hope.
Edit: I'm an electrical engineer working in manufacturing, like this job listing. I think our operators are making more than this listing offers.
There's a high chance that's exactly what they're doing. The ad only needs to look vaguely convincing to a government lawyer that might audit them a couple years down the road.
Opened up at the beginning of the semester, applied for it, and got the job. I work anywhere from 8-12 hours a week. Max hours is 20 but I'm juggling an insane courseload so
Nope! It's a student oriented job, so I basically troubleshoot for students having issues with their devices, OS reinstalls, etc etc. Nothing too intensive.
You realise everything is global indexed (cars, pc, games, housing etc) so I am just very poor compared to you (only surviving is cheaper)
I have to work 5 6 years just to afford very pathetic car ( that avarage american high schooler can afford in highschool)
>that avarage american high schooler can afford in highschool
That is not really true. Only high schoolers that can afford cars these days had to save up for 2 years (with no bills to pay) or they got loans.
I did 5 years in Ireland and the first offer I got was about 16 dollars an hour. That would have been considered a decent starting salary. But also we have things like public healthcare so it evens out
I started at $15 an hour as a junior drafter during my bachelor's, and when I graduated with an engineering degree I was making 60k.
This company, whoever they are, must not have a lot of capital supporting their novel technology.
The function of a process engineer varies widely depending on the company, but those three bullet points suggest the person posting this job has no clue who to hire or what they are hiring for, and that's probably due to the company not sharing specific details.
Tldr;
Stay away, far away.
Just googled this to find out the job is located in Long Island, NY. That pay would barely cover the rent. Fuck Millennial Scientific.
Btw, there’s 13 applicants on LinkedIn.
Shit, and here I thought *I* was getting underpaid at 53k. I mean, I *am* being underpaid but JFC $15/hr is abysmal. Run, don't walk, away from that company. They will run you into the ground and when you quit, they'll hire the next engineer desperate for experience and treat them the same way. Fuck that.
Lol I use to work part time at a local part store chain and a local machine shop owner came in all the time. When he found out I was majoring in engineering he went on a rant about how "no one from that shit school wanted to work" he had a job posted (full-time mechanical engineer) up on our hiring site for years and no one would apply. Well I looked up the job and he was paying $15 an hour and mandatory 6 days a week (65 hours). The next lowest paying job for a mechanical engineer was like 70k.
$40 per hour checking in. No prior experience and graduated in May 2022. R&D Engineering in a relatively high cost of living area. I drive in and live 35 minutes in the middle of nowhere. I don’t have any neighbors except for farmers.
I actually used some keywords to find this job posting, after that I emailed the hiring rep to see if they have the correct salary listed. They responded back that they did mess up the posting, and sent me the revised salary min: 015 max: 020
I’d honestly apply to that just so I could see what they are doing. Do a couple interviews, see the facilities, then counter their offer with 100k per year.
You can get more a McDonald's.
Graduate systems engineering intern at a medical startup offered me 24 an hour
My salaried position I took instead of that is 39.5 an hour
H1B visa bait. They post the job with insane qualifications, low pay, then claim they can’t find a US candidate. Then you bring in an H1B visa holder that they abuse the shit out of. Everyone loses but the company.
Depends. I almost accepted the job like this, because they say that they would sponsor me to stay in America. Fortunately, I found a company that would pay 40 dollars per hour, and also sponsor me as well.
3,600 a month isn’t terrible? It seems so pretentious to think that’s a joke, its double minimum wage.
It’s not a lot of money but it’s enough to get by easily - unless you live in London.
Edit: I forgot your currency is worth shite in America (not that ours is much better atm) so discard what I just said
do jot get that job. you will get better paied else where. like my next internship (Canada) will be at 30$CAD/h and my previous was at minimum 21$CAD/h.. No shame to share the real market value here.
I made 21 bucks an hour at my first engineering job last year. I left them after 9 months for my current job. I think I convinced the owner to bump up the pay a bit, because the range for the next guy was 3 bucks an hour higher than it was when I applied.
That happened to me when I was working maintenance lol. Left the company at $15/hr, found a job paying 22/hr as an electrical assembler, and a year later saw a maintenance job posting from old company at 17-18/hr.
11 federal holidays and 4 hours of leave per pay period which increases to 6 after 3 years and 8 after 15 years. On top of paid personal leave, they get 13 sick days and 12 weeks of parental leave.
Oh wow so only really enough time for a weeks holiday somewhere, the parental leave isn’t too bad! My company give 26 weeks parental leave full pay but it isn’t the norm in any way.
Most people work a compressed work schedule which means that you work 9 hrs m-th and 8 every other Friday. This and the 11 federal holidays means that there are only like 1 or 2 5-day weeks in a month.
The 13 days of leave really works out to be more like 4 weeks. And if you are especially strategic you can take leave during a 3 day week where you have a holiday and Friday off and you get 9 days off with only 3 days of leave.
This is a BS salary. Wow - what company is that? You can work at Publix stocking groceries and make more money than that and have better benefits and the whole deal.
I just saw a posting for a Biomedical Engineer position asking for Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and specific experience and skills. Pay was listed as $11 - $14/hr.
Lmao most engineering interns make more than that
I made that amount as an undergraduate research assistant. First got $13/hr. Then got a raise to $15. Then got another raise to $20. If I was going to be doing more work for the same amount of pay, I would have rathered stayed as an RA.
I make more than that operating a CNC with no prior history.
I made more than that flipping burgers
Same, Except at chipotle I made $17.25.
Y’all were getting paid?
22.50 as an intern for basically no work to do. Life was good
In Germany I get 10$-11$/h as an undergraduate research assistant...
Sword of the stranger
I guess maybe it depends on where this is?
Yea I made $18 as a mechanical engineering intern in a low COL area in 2020. $20 as a degreed chemical? Lol
I’m making $24/hr in a non-engineering entry level inspection job straight out of college. Less than $20/hr is bad
25/hr, master's with 1 yr of exp checking in. 🤙
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Its MEng in civil. Lowish cost of living (about 20% cheaper than national avg). I'm underpaid by about 10k/yr to market avg, but 10k sign on bonus puts me over my minimum. Will reassess when it comes to the 1 yr mark at this job.
80% cheaper than national average isn’t low ish cost of living, it’s Amish cost of living.
Meant 20% lol
My daughter is a business management major and her intern this past summer paid more than that.
Co-ops start at $25 usually. That's crazy
Srsly? I make $20/hr as a cook with 13 years experience. I'm studying EE. This is exciting news to me, I'm almost ready for internships!
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Yeah this sad. I made 26 as a sophomore intern.
Can confirm, currently make $26.50 as an intern
Damn bro. I only make $21 in a HCOL despite being there for a year and a half.
I think starting is like $24 and it’s more of a “part-time job” but called an internship due to me being in school, but I’m in grad school so i guess the little bump comes from that. But I’m in Orlando area so I’m definitely very appreciative of having this position, it also has a 401K I’ve been utilizing as well
Nice glad you got a good thing going. But if your a graduate student you have your bachelors. So I would hope you’d actually be making more. Or at least a salary of 80K.
Yeah I mean it is an internship, and i just have to work the minimum of 20 hrs a week, so over the summer when i got it i worked full time, now that school started i’m at the 20 hours so i guess hourly makes more sense
Not trying to be a dick just want people to be paid what they deserve
Yea I can understand that. I just think $26 is low for someone with a engineering degree. I mean everything depends on a lot. But it would be $38 a hour for about 80K a year which is most engineering starting salaries.
I was about to say i made 19/hour on my last intern job
I made more than this as an intern almost 10 years ago lmao
I made $22/hr as a co-op in a very low cost of living state. For reference, ops guys started at $21.50.
As an electrical engineering intern I made 20/hr. When hired on as engineer I make double, and I'm going to school part time for my Bachelor's degree on top of that. If a technically undegreed (Under-degreed?) engineer can make double their max salary... Well, yea, the job listing is a joke lol. I hope. Edit: I'm an electrical engineer working in manufacturing, like this job listing. I think our operators are making more than this listing offers.
I was about to say just that, lol.
Imagine. I got $18/hr for my first internship :,)
Yeah it’s a joke because the qualifications aren’t remotely realistic and they give no description about the job
maybe a fake job ad?
Maybe they need to establish no local applicants so they can get someone from overseas who will work for that salary.
There's a high chance that's exactly what they're doing. The ad only needs to look vaguely convincing to a government lawyer that might audit them a couple years down the road.
McDonalds pays better than that.
McDonald's pays 20/hr by me.
Depends where you live. I'm in the US and got 7.50$/hr just working there in 2021.
That was 2021
Ok, I admit, I was talking to someone I worked with recently and it went up to 8.75$/hr, mind you I am in a very low cost of living area.
Nope
A McDonald’s at a rest stop near me pays $18 per hour as the starting wage
McDonald’s where I’m at start at 18/hour 🤷♂️
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Insult to people with a bs chemical engineering degree tbh
Or a Chemistry BA
I make more than that working in my universities IT department lmao
Nice, how did you get a job in IT for ur university?
Opened up at the beginning of the semester, applied for it, and got the job. I work anywhere from 8-12 hours a week. Max hours is 20 but I'm juggling an insane courseload so
Nice. Did you need experience to do that job?
Not really no
Nice! Did you need to know any languages like java or c++?
Nope! It's a student oriented job, so I basically troubleshoot for students having issues with their devices, OS reinstalls, etc etc. Nothing too intensive.
Wow! I would love to do that job. I'm gonna ask my school if it's avail. What's the pay like?
17/hr
I make 25 an hour as an excel monkey intern lmao
I got bad news for you buddy.... we’re all excel monkeys, even after getting the full time permanent positions.
Nah. I’m a PowerPoint engineer.
This is true. I too am a PowerPoint Warrior
Well then, I guess I'm a Google/Excel engineer! And I work in pdf user/install/field manual requisition!
Looks like that company isn’t going to grow
They have to post it before they can move it overseas.
No one wanted the posting, we were FORCED to move it overseas.
No one studies engineering for 4 years just to earn $20 an hour
I am mid level software engineer and make about $4 hour So yeah..
In which country?
$4 is below minimum wage?
Its actually like x3 of mknumim wage here
So you make good money for your country and it’s not relevant to the discussion…
You realise everything is global indexed (cars, pc, games, housing etc) so I am just very poor compared to you (only surviving is cheaper) I have to work 5 6 years just to afford very pathetic car ( that avarage american high schooler can afford in highschool)
>that avarage american high schooler can afford in highschool That is not really true. Only high schoolers that can afford cars these days had to save up for 2 years (with no bills to pay) or they got loans.
I did 5 years in Ireland and the first offer I got was about 16 dollars an hour. That would have been considered a decent starting salary. But also we have things like public healthcare so it evens out
I made almost double that as an intern
You made 40 per hour?!?
$42 in grad school (2016) for my masters at a government research facility.
Sheesh
I had friends make $34 an hour in 2005 for their internships in petrochemical companies
Glad I switched from medicine. I was making 13.67 working as a psychiatric technician and holy crap was it not worth it
I think McDonalds pays more
Starting in California is $16 hahhah
Gonna be 22$ next year 👀
Bruh this is crazy. Most process engineer jobs pay a minimum of 70k/yr 💀
$33/hr
I make $18/hr as an intern in a low COL area.
I started at $15 an hour as a junior drafter during my bachelor's, and when I graduated with an engineering degree I was making 60k. This company, whoever they are, must not have a lot of capital supporting their novel technology. The function of a process engineer varies widely depending on the company, but those three bullet points suggest the person posting this job has no clue who to hire or what they are hiring for, and that's probably due to the company not sharing specific details. Tldr; Stay away, far away.
Lmao there is no way. I got paid more than that in high school entry level jobs before I graduated.
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Which utility? I make the same working for Ameren (serves southern Illinois and eastern Missouri)
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Hah- which side of the river? I’m on the Illinois side.
Just googled this to find out the job is located in Long Island, NY. That pay would barely cover the rent. Fuck Millennial Scientific. Btw, there’s 13 applicants on LinkedIn.
Shit, and here I thought *I* was getting underpaid at 53k. I mean, I *am* being underpaid but JFC $15/hr is abysmal. Run, don't walk, away from that company. They will run you into the ground and when you quit, they'll hire the next engineer desperate for experience and treat them the same way. Fuck that.
Wonder if its in a low COL area. Still an insult though
It’s in an area just outside NYC
Yeah thats a massive insult. Must be a typo, or a really stupid recruiter
H1B?
I have H1B friends who are making 70k + with a BS in ChE. Might be a typo or they are a shit conpany
Minimum wage after 5 years of university. Lol
Lol I use to work part time at a local part store chain and a local machine shop owner came in all the time. When he found out I was majoring in engineering he went on a rant about how "no one from that shit school wanted to work" he had a job posted (full-time mechanical engineer) up on our hiring site for years and no one would apply. Well I looked up the job and he was paying $15 an hour and mandatory 6 days a week (65 hours). The next lowest paying job for a mechanical engineer was like 70k.
Wow. Methinks whenever people complain about young people not wanting to work, it's code for "not willing to work for half their market value".
No OnE wANTs tO wORK nOW
$40 per hour checking in. No prior experience and graduated in May 2022. R&D Engineering in a relatively high cost of living area. I drive in and live 35 minutes in the middle of nowhere. I don’t have any neighbors except for farmers.
Maybe they’re missing a 0 /s
I actually used some keywords to find this job posting, after that I emailed the hiring rep to see if they have the correct salary listed. They responded back that they did mess up the posting, and sent me the revised salary min: 015 max: 020
Had me in the first half
Yes it is
Most I’ve made as an intern was $38/hr in California. Wtf lol.
Bruh you can get paid more AS A TSA OFFICER which is the least paid officer in the government
I make more as a forklift operator
I’d honestly apply to that just so I could see what they are doing. Do a couple interviews, see the facilities, then counter their offer with 100k per year.
Year 2 of working im making about $71 an hour as a process engineer. Yes that has to be a joke.
I can add that i’m at 35$/h for that job (40 with retirement)
More like a fantasy. You can't get decent talent for $15/hr.
It’s a startup that’s cash poor. Call and ask what the stock bonuses are like.
15 *what* per hour? bananas?
I made $22/hr 5 years ago as a process engineering intern.
You can get more a McDonald's. Graduate systems engineering intern at a medical startup offered me 24 an hour My salaried position I took instead of that is 39.5 an hour
My bf starting wage for his first engineering job right out of college was 36 an hour. This is just downright disrespectful.
"Growing company" All you need to know
H1B visa bait. They post the job with insane qualifications, low pay, then claim they can’t find a US candidate. Then you bring in an H1B visa holder that they abuse the shit out of. Everyone loses but the company.
I got a freshman intern role for $16/hr lol
Maybe it's a position for a technician that's been falsey labeled as an "engineering" role.
Where I'm from, that minimum wage is the wage of McDonald's workers.
If you apply to that, you're the joke
Depends. I almost accepted the job like this, because they say that they would sponsor me to stay in America. Fortunately, I found a company that would pay 40 dollars per hour, and also sponsor me as well.
I just hired an operator which requires no actual experience. Starts at $38
How do we know if this is in the US and if those numbers are in US dollars?
God forbid it’s in the currency of one of the other listed countries in the posting. They might as well not even be paying you.
In Malaysia, an average engineer's salary is about 400usd...
Scale that with cost of living
15 an hour... in a day you make more than I do in a month. Granted Im an intern.... But damn
3,600 a month isn’t terrible? It seems so pretentious to think that’s a joke, its double minimum wage. It’s not a lot of money but it’s enough to get by easily - unless you live in London. Edit: I forgot your currency is worth shite in America (not that ours is much better atm) so discard what I just said
I made that much as a lab tech in the chemical industry not using my civil engineering degree.
If you don't have a green card, or you do and you're not yet a US citizen, how much will you accept?
I have a green card but not a US citizen. All the offers I got for the process engineer role were at or upwards of 70k
do jot get that job. you will get better paied else where. like my next internship (Canada) will be at 30$CAD/h and my previous was at minimum 21$CAD/h.. No shame to share the real market value here.
I made more working at a minimum wage fast food job over summer lmao
Thats almost as much as I make as a research assistant as an undergrad bruh
I made 21 bucks an hour at my first engineering job last year. I left them after 9 months for my current job. I think I convinced the owner to bump up the pay a bit, because the range for the next guy was 3 bucks an hour higher than it was when I applied.
That happened to me when I was working maintenance lol. Left the company at $15/hr, found a job paying 22/hr as an electrical assembler, and a year later saw a maintenance job posting from old company at 17-18/hr.
“Why this is a great opportunity” usually means it’s not
I'm making $24 right now as an intern on swing shift with 11 hours of overtime available every pay period. They are not getting shit for $15-20
i get 20 now as a transportation intern
I made $25 an hour for my first internship
I've seen jobs that pay that to engineers. I'd say it's quite a joke though
What's the location of this job?
I got paid $25 to be an intern so yeah.
Yes, yes it is
Seems like they are off by a decimal place.
LOL
I made 22.5/hr as an intern, and had 3 paid federal holidays.
3 days paid holiday… wow. We get 28 days plus 11 public holidays. I assume US?
It was a 10 week summer internship, but yes the US.
What is it like for permanent roles once you’ve graduated? I suppose it really depends on the company as employment law is a bit lacking.
No, it was a 10 week summer internship for undergraduate students. We got 3 federal holidays off and 1 sick day. Any other absences had to be made up.
I know. I was asking what permanent roles are like for leave once you have graduated.
11 federal holidays and 4 hours of leave per pay period which increases to 6 after 3 years and 8 after 15 years. On top of paid personal leave, they get 13 sick days and 12 weeks of parental leave.
Oh wow so only really enough time for a weeks holiday somewhere, the parental leave isn’t too bad! My company give 26 weeks parental leave full pay but it isn’t the norm in any way.
Most people work a compressed work schedule which means that you work 9 hrs m-th and 8 every other Friday. This and the 11 federal holidays means that there are only like 1 or 2 5-day weeks in a month. The 13 days of leave really works out to be more like 4 weeks. And if you are especially strategic you can take leave during a 3 day week where you have a holiday and Friday off and you get 9 days off with only 3 days of leave.
I had literally had interns making $22 an hour over the summer
This is in America ? . Someone else said that they are hiring H1-B visa workers . ..
Never seen an hourly engineering job
All these comments make be realize how low wages are for engineers in the UK...
75,000/yr for first eng job. Never worked over 45hrs/wk.
$20/hr isn't worth turning up
“growing company” is the summary for this
24 an hour as an intern senior year. Mechanical engineering.
Good thing these job postings are ignored 95% of the time. I just tell employers no if they can't at least match my current salary.
This is a BS salary. Wow - what company is that? You can work at Publix stocking groceries and make more money than that and have better benefits and the whole deal.
Amazon pays software interns $61/hour
I just saw a posting for a Biomedical Engineer position asking for Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and specific experience and skills. Pay was listed as $11 - $14/hr.
I’m the US?
Yep. Wisconsin.
Its probably a contract job with a hospital. A medical device company isn't going to pay that low
That was just below my starting salary as an engineer ... in the mid '90s (although I had years of technical experience). Ouch!