Chemical Engineering Salaries

St3ph3n

I'm currently a Chemical Engineering student and am planning to get into the biopharm/pharma sector. Does anyone know what the average salary for engineers with experience is in those sectors?

I'm a bit worried as I was always basing my expectations on the US surveys which all say it's around $80-$100K. Closer to home its £50,000 in the UK and 80-100Aus$ in Australia. But I've heard from colleagues and class mates that here in Ireland after 5 years you could expect maybe only €40000 which seems a bit crap compared to all the other countries.Is that figure accurate?

pljudge321

St3ph3n wrote: »

I'm currently a Chemical Engineering student and am planning to get into the biopharm/pharma sector. Does anyone know what the average salary for engineers with experience is in those sectors?

I'm a bit worried as I was always basing my expectations on the US surveys which all say it's around $80-$100K. Closer to home its £50,000 in the UK and 80-100Aus$ in Australia. But I've heard from colleagues and class mates that here in Ireland after 5 years you could expect maybe only €40000 which seems a bit crap compared to all the other countries.Is that figure accurate?

No way its £50,000 for grads in the UK. It might be closer to £35,000 if your in the oil industry. Have a look at gradcracker.com to get an idea of starting salaries in the UK.

St3ph3n

Ha I was talking about engineers with experience in the sectors 4 years +, don't think theres any career with £50000 as a starting graduate salary!

Chemistry Ftw

I heard it's between 30,000-40,000 euro starting salary in the pharma industry.

Max_Charger

pljudge321 wrote: »

Have a look at gradcracker.com to get an idea of starting salaries in the UK.

That's a brilliant website, almost sticky material brilliant.

pljudge321

Max_Charger wrote: »

That's a brilliant website, almost sticky material brilliant.

Yeah, it really is. There's nothing anywhere near as good for here.