Abdalla
In which country are mechanical engineers in demand and paid heavily?
I am a Mechanical Engineering major student. I will be graduating and will obtain my Bachelor's Degree two years from now so I needed to understand very well the job market, opportunities and future for such a field to be able to trace and plan my career successfully starting off now. #career #major. #mechanical-engineering #engineering
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Spruce Cox
Spruce’s Answer
Abdalla,
Congratulations on completing your first two years! It’s a very good time now to focus in on an area of ME that you’re really interested in. You’re asking about location and salary and that’s fine, but I think the most important thing is for you to enjoy what you do. I picked thermodynamics when I graduated in ME in 1980 and did that for a few years, then I switched jobs and got involved in launching rockets. Please follow your passion.
Mechanical engineers are almost always in demand. Industries in which mechanical engineers are paid the most varies by country, and at least in the US, by state. This link takes you to a (22 June 2017) discussion of the eight best countries for engineers (all disciplines). I’ll list them here in case the link doesn’t work (I think list is in reverse order): Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, England, and China.
These countries below are the 10 highest paying countries for mechanical engineers (in reverse order). The industries paying more also vary by country. Calling them heavily paid might be a bit much, highly paid for sure---Spain ($41K), Belgium ($43K), Netherlands ($45K), France ($47K), Canada ($50K), Sweden ($50K), Germany ($56K), Australia ($81K), USA ($84K), Switzerland ($84K).
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-highest-paying-countries-for-mechanical-engineers-605669/
You have the world at your feet, Abdalla. All the best.
Your answer is TERRIFIC Spruce, thank you so much for sharing your expertise with Abdalla! At this moment there are more than 800 unanswered questions so I wanted to encourage you to keep going! So many students will benefit tremendously from hearing from you. Keep up the great work! 👏🏽
Lindsey Manning-Djabbari
Deeksha Shivakumar Kumar
Deeksha Shivakumar’s Answer
If your objective is to get a higher salary with your Mechanical Engineering degree and you are not interested in going down a completely technical path, I would suggest you take elective courses from the business school. This will give get you to those positions in which both technical and managerial skills are required, these positions often pay more than a simple mechanical engineering degree regardless of which country. If you are unable to select courses from the business school, you can concentrate more on subjects like Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Operations, planning and control, Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Logistics.
The subjects mentioned above can get you in to any top companies in the world, as supply chain is a integral part of every company.