You would have such a high disposable income you would quickly pay off your mortgage on a big house and then invest in other properties. They'll be great in handling low hanging fruit tasks, but it takes a bit to really get that light bulb moment when everything just clicks. After 3 years of working as an engineer for a large utility company I have seen my pay stagnate and my friends and partners increase. It’s the same with engineering. Well it may have to do with the pay. A correction Phil H. GPs do not generally hold doctorates, the doctor title they have is a courtesy title. And how many engineers make over 100k? Why don’t you look at glassdoor or indeed and compare salaries for engineers in the UK to other countries? Otherwise you are looking at roughly 1.5 times your salary which is the brake even point to your employer, if an engineer was paid £100k a year say around £8.75k a month could you make your employer £150k a year as an individual? It makes me sad to say this. But as with everything else, reward requires risk. On average, a structural engineer will charge $300-$500 an hour. Structural engineers focus on the physical integrity and design of projects such as buildings, bridges, and tunnels. Despite exorbitant costs, people pile into med schools at such a rate that most of those schools have acceptance rates in single percentages (at most one in ten applicants is offered admission in most schools). Maybe you want to work abroad? There is no fair way to compare jobs, you can argue software engineers need higher IQs so that's why they are paid more. But that’s another story. If a doctor makes a mistake one patient might die, if any of the other professions make a mistake somebody might lose some money , if an engineer in the aerospace industry makes a mistake up to 600 people a time could die. I forgive your time of writing your comments but at £40,000 per annum with steady rise in cost of living, it is actually a joke, for posterity’s sake, that engineers in the UK are being mocked for real. Structural engineers focus on the physical integrity and design of projects such as buildings, bridges, and tunnels. Most of these people at high end have background in engineering but they abandoned it for better salaries. Finally, I think the comparison with banking is spurious – in general the ‘financial engineering’ of bankers has no comparison with the work of engineers. When you see a serious engineering role come up, one where experience is essential, it’s usually a temporary or short-term contract. Structural 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago (1 child), The fee's on a project may be comparable to the mep, but the amount of drawings, details, and work put into structural tends to be much greater. Sad reality really. Ask a typical engineer at a typical company how to make more money. So we're back to the original question, why is it that doctors are paid better than engineers? In the future Engineering may still probably be more fun than the legal profession appears to be but will be different and probably, on average, paid less. I think the closest comparison for non engineer here might be for Bachelors degree for men. Second, leaving the UK. As for status – you should get status because you are an outstanding person, not because of the job title. The smallest accounts to be paid first. I dont know where you got some of those figures but at least it gave me a laugh on a Monday morning. Yes, I realize that £450 for a small terraced house is quite cheap for England. Harrumph. Why is this happening? If you're comparing Structural to say, a Transportation engineer. How do we change that? Where-as on structural there are quite a few more specific details, just looking at the amount of pages structural has vs mep combined on any given set. First, leaving the profession and doing something else for which your engineering skills can be highly valued, think on the financial sector or data science, etc. From this you then become an engineer at around £30k-£35k, then with chartership with the ICE, you can push up to senior engineer of around £40k. I was wondering why? industry and I see the structural engineers know and do so much more than the other civil engineering … But, the supply demand curve theory in mytha-nomics might not be correct. Hi all from my personal experience the salaries engineers are paid is no where near £30k. That’s one reason, apart from the orgiastic fun of a good explosion, for example, that keeps me as an Engineer. [–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago (3 children), [–]Enlight1OmentS.E. The other engineering disciplines experience this to a much lesser extent, if at all. Your net family income will not be that high, one of you will likely give up work to look after the kids as they grow up, because child-care costs make it pointless to stay working. That’s about the top salary you can get as an electronics engineer. But as i have said before companies are run by pen pushing accountants they see low wages and can hide away the time taken and quality as that’s not their problem! Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic, and environmental concerns, but they may also consider aesthetic and social factors. If I worked as a GP I could get paid as much as £104,000 a year. Here are my clarifications – I am not doing anyone or anything down – I think it’s great when people progress and get qualifications and experience – but some of it is more real and valuable than others. In West Midlands too so no London weighting. For someone with your tenuous connection with reality and total disconnect from economics, Red Ed’s roadshow was LAST week. I wonder because that seems quite low by my experience. [–]monstimal -3 points-2 points-1 points 3 years ago (4 children). A structural engineer is a licensed professional that can be utilized in your upcoming home renovation project or property purchase. Some of the points here are too pessimistic: Perhaps one of the more important reasons for an engineering/science/nedical degree is that its a degree that actually has some value. Engineers receive the market rate, that is clear. You would have a net income of >£208,000 a year. The salary is a function of the profitability in any particular industry. In some parts of the world, structural engineers get paid an annual salary of $103,000. also in respect I have worked with people off the tools and also found them to be equally useless due to the disregard to the engineering process. Costs vary for each part of the in-depth structural review an engineer does. Obviously depends the Industry category which classified you as engineer on the different pay level. Not only for my preference of hands-on to sitting at a desk, but also for the earlier financial benefits. I used the graph to look for the mythical engineer shortage creating higher prices. We cater for building surveys, home buyer reports, dilapidation reports, valuation surveys, structural engineer reports and schedule of condition reports.. We are UK based with only UK typists, we offer three tiers of turnaround for your property reports, same day, 24-hour and 48-hour. They come 3 months to clear the shht and then they get fired. The same Globalization forces are sucking out the middle class like a giant vampire squid. Compare this to other professions and you’ll realise that they’re in a different universe. I also believe the law is well overdue for a shake up. 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