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*All information from the december 96 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine.
1996 Figures
Bachelor's Degree: $41,100
Master's Degree: $45,700
Doctoral Degree: $59,400
Based on the EWC survey, CE's traditional benchmark for U.S. salaries is the median salary for ``all engineers in all industries'' with a B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. and 13 years of experience. In 1996, that figure rose by 4.1%, to $60,800. This is based on about 90,700 responses.
Breaking down chemical engineers by job function, the AIChE found the highest-paid people working in the areas of business, finance, law and licensing, with a median of $106,000. General managers were a close second with $98,600. Technical managers were paid significantly less, with a median of $82,000; for project managers, that number was $74,000.
Many engineering functions, including R&D, process safety, maintenance, production and project engineering were in the range of $60,000 to $69,000. Of the group, the lowest medians were in product engineering ($59,000), environmental engineering ($57,050), quality control ($56,150) and testing and analysis ($53,150).
