 This video is sponsored by Aura. The highest paying engineering career tier list. You guys asked for it. I ranked it. Let's do this. In this video, we are going to be ranking different engineering related careers from S tier, which is the best to F tier, which is the worst. If you like videos like this, go ahead and gently tap that like button to let me know and also share with a friend because I don't have some giant marketing department like all the universities do. I'm just one guy making some videos. So with that being said, let's jump right into it with one of the most highly requested engineering degrees and engineering careers, which is mechatronics engineering. So in this video, I am going to be focusing on pay because pretty much everything else when it comes to careers is really subjective. I will talk about a few other things, but I'm going to keep it relatively brief because I want to keep this video short. Unfortunately, you can't really explain stuff in detail and also have a short video. But with that being said, mechatronics engineers make around $90,000 a year. That's pretty good, but it's actually on the lower side for engineering related careers. Now it does make sense, mechatronics engineering is a relatively new career. It does have a pretty promising future though. I would say this is kind of a dark horse candidate. Five or 10 years down the line, this one might make it into S tier, but for this video, I'm going to have to put it into B tier. Next one on the list is going to be aerospace engineering. And this one has enough people in it that it actually made it onto BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And according to BLS, they make about $122,000 a year and it's growing at 8%, which is as fast as average. Now the numbers between Glassdoor and BLS can vary by sometimes five to 10,000 or so, but they're usually relatively close. But it is very clear that aerospace engineers make amazing money. This one is going to go into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be mechanical engineers. Now the good thing about mechanical engineering is it's very flexible. So if you get the mechanical engineering degree, there's a lot of different career paths you can go into. But if you choose to be a mechanical engineer, you can expect to make around $95,000 a year and it's growing at 7%, which is as fast as average. Now compared to all other careers, this is amazing. But when you're talking about engineering careers, this is actually just, you know, pretty good. And so for that reason, this one is going to go into B tier. Now one thing I mentioned is how if you get a mechanical engineering degree, there's a ton of different career paths you can go down. And one of them that's actually relatively common that a lot of people don't know about is finance. So many finance companies have a strategy for hiring where they just basically try to get the smartest possible people, regardless of what their major is, and then they teach them the finance side of things. So a lot of the time, they'll hire physics, math, and engineering majors. And there's many different finance jobs that you can go for, but it's well known that the finance industry has a ton of money, especially if you're kind of like an A type really driven personality. Finance might actually be the number one industry when it comes to making a very, very good salary. So with that being said, finance definitely makes it into S tier. There's a ton of different career paths you can go down, which we don't have time to cover in this video. And there's especially a lot of opportunity if you go into what's known as FinTech, which is basically finance mixed with technology. There's a lot of really promising startups in FinTech. 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A lot of people become software developers, software engineers, they go into data science, etc. There's a ton of different options out there for you. And so technology related careers, again, don't have time to go over all of them, but they are going to go into S tier. Now, another really interesting thing about engineering degrees is it's actually the most common type of degree for people who go on to become either CEOs or successful founders of startups. And that totally makes sense because engineering is basically practical problem solving. And that's what entrepreneurship is as well. So it is very common for people to go into engineering and then become entrepreneurs later on down the line. And what you can make here ranges widely all the way from like 70,000 a year to 100 billion dollars a year if you're Elon Musk. So yeah, this one definitely is going to go into S tier, although it's not everybody's cup of tea. Next one on the list is going to be a special one. It's technically software related, but I wanted to include it on this list because I really like it. And that is security engineer. And this is basically exactly what it sounds like. They try to keep systems safe. They also monitor systems for threats. They test them for bugs, etc. And according to Glassdoor, security engineers make about 113,000 dollars a year. So yeah, this one definitely is going to go into S tier. Another possible career path would be engineering manager. Now I've talked about this before on the channel, but engineering majors who decide to go into an engineering related career actually make more money than any other type of major over a lifetime over the last 40 years. About 3.5 million dollars on average. And it's pretty good no matter where you go. Even if you go into an art related career, you can still expect to make about 3 million dollars over a lifetime, which is pretty good. But the career path that makes the most over a lifetime if you get an engineering degree is going into management at 4.1 million dollars on average. So becoming a manager is a really good option. This one is also going to go into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be a marine engineer. And they'll work on anything that's engineering related that has to do with the water. So according to BLS marine engineers make about 93,000 dollars a year. And there's about 9,800 jobs and it's growing at 4% which is slower than average. Now the fact that 93,000 a year is on the lower side and then on top of that it's growing slower than average makes me have to put this one in a lower tier. Now again, this is really good compared to all different careers out there. But for engineering careers, this one is going to go into C tier. Next on the list is going to be chemical engineering. And they use chemistry to create products and solve problems. And you find a lot of chemical engineers in industries like fuel, food, drugs, and chemicals. Now according to BLS chemical engineers make about 105,000 dollars a year. There's 26,000 jobs available. And it's growing at 9% which is as fast as average. So overall pretty good numbers here doesn't pop off the charts. So I'm going to put this one into A tier. Next on the list is going to be civil engineering. And you would go into the career of civil engineer. So civil engineers help to design the infrastructure of cities. And if you've ever been in a city that has really bad infrastructure like cities where at certain times of the day it has ridiculous amounts of traffic you will know why civil engineering is important. Their designs helped to make your city both efficient but also safe. So civil engineers can expect to make about 88,000 dollars a year. There's 309,000 jobs which is really good and it's growing at 8% which is as fast as average. So the pay here is quite a bit lower than a lot of the other engineering related careers on the list. However, there is a lot of jobs. So it kind of balances itself out. It's one of the lowest paying but there's a lot of jobs. So this one I would put maybe into high C tier low B tier. Just on this list I'm going to have to put this one into C tier. I'll go ahead and be nice and put it into B tier. Next one on the list is going to be electrical engineering. I think this one kind of goes without saying what electrical engineers do. And according to BLS electrical and electronics engineers make about 101,000 dollars a year. There's 313,000 jobs available which is phenomenal and it's growing at 7% which is as fast as average. So the combination of pretty good pay it's over six figures. And then on top of that there's a lot of jobs available and this is one of the most flexible engineering related skill sets. This one is definitely going into S tier. Next on the list is going to be a production manager type role and it's basically somebody who does a little bit of logistics and they also make sure the facility that they're working in is efficient but it's also safe. So industrial production managers you do see quite a bit of engineers going into this role and they make about 103,000 dollars a year. There's 189,000 jobs available so you know pretty good and it's also growing at 5% which is a little slower than average. So overall I'll put this one into A tier. Next on the list is going to be a petroleum engineer and I think it's pretty obvious and self-explanatory what they do. This is actually the highest paying degree period. Let's not argue about it. Let's go study. Right. So if you get a petroleum engineering degree it's the highest paying one and if you go into petroleum engineering you can expect to make about 130,000 dollars per year. There's 28,000 jobs available and it's growing at 8% which is as fast as average. So not a whole lot of jobs available the natural gas industry also fluctuates quite a bit depending on you know all type of different geopolitical factors. So it's not always the most stable industry for you to go into but with that being said this is the highest paying degree period very high paying career as well. So I'm going to have to put this one into S tier. Next one on the list is a really cool one and that is sales engineer. Sales engineers do all kinds of different things but one of the main things is they help to advise their clients about what parts they're going to need in order to keep their operations running smoothly. And as a sales engineer you can expect to make about 103,000 dollars on average there's 63,000 jobs available and it's growing at 8% which is as fast as average. A very closely related one that you see on Glassdoor is field sales engineer and they make about 107,000 dollars on average. So yeah, this is a pretty good one. I'm pretty bullish on this one in the future as well. I could see this one being even higher but for now I'll go ahead and put it into A tier. Next one on the list is going to be biomedical engineer and this is one that I personally think is really cool because it combines kind of an engineering skill set with a medical skill set and I do see this one being good possibly in the future depending on a bunch of things that are totally outside of our control or prediction but unfortunately this one only pays about 80,000 dollars a year according to Glassdoor which is one of the lowest on the list. And because of that I actually have to put this one into F tier but like I said this one could be really good in the future there's a lot of really cool stuff going on when it comes to biomedical science and biomedical engineering. Next one on the list is going to be nuclear engineer. Now this is a type of engineer that works with everything related to nuclear power and anything that's related to the energy industry is dependent on a bunch of factors that are completely outside of our control and in many cases they are artificial. So it could be that 50 years from now nuclear engineers are the best energy related engineer or it could be that for some reason you know politicians ban nuclear engineering and you know you don't have any jobs. I personally think that nuclear engineering is awesome and I think that a hundred years from now it's probably going to be the number one way that we get energy but I can't say the same thing for five or 10 years from now. But with that being said according to BLS they make about $120,000 a year 17,000 jobs available and unfortunately the job outlook is pretty bad at negative 8% over the next 10 years. So when it comes to how much they make and I am weighing that heavier in this list because this is like the highest paying engineering career tier list this is like almost S tier but because of the fact that it's you know declining at negative 8% I'm going to go ahead and put this one into A tier. Next on the list is going to be environmental engineer and this is a type of engineer that works on all things related to the environment and sustainability. Now this is one where I could see it doing very very well in the future. I'm pretty bullish on this one. It's kind of one of my dark horse candidates and one of the main reasons for that besides the fact that it's you know probably a pretty good idea for us to not destroy the planet but one of the other main reasons for that is because of the fact that many countries are incentivizing businesses to be more eco-friendly and in my opinion that is very smart. So sustainability is an industry that is really going to be booming in my opinion over the next 10 to 20 years. But with that being said right now environmental engineers make about $85,000 a year which is good but not really that great for engineering related careers so this one is going to go into D tier. Next on the list is going to be industrial engineer it's another one I'm very excited about because you combine kind of like a operations management logistics type skill set with an engineering skill set and according to BLS they make about $95,000 a year there is a whopping 292,000 jobs available and it's growing at 14% which is faster than average and on top of that the industrial engineering related skill set does translate very easily into other types of careers related to business and technology so it's also a very flexible career as well. So for all those reasons even though the career itself is a little bit low the other things boost it up to A tier status. Alright so it was hard to rank any of these badly because engineering related careers are just really good so honestly when it comes to engineering related careers I kind of just tell people to go for the one they're most passionate about because past a certain level when it comes to how much money you make you're not going to care all that much about money right below that level you definitely care about money but once you get past that level it's not nearly as important and lifestyle, passion and all those other things on Maslow's hierarchy of needs become more important to you. And if you like this video check this video out right here I think you're really going to enjoy it and I will see you next time.