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The 20 highest-paying jobs for engineering majors. Engineering jobs pay well. To find out just how lucrative they really are, we turned to PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database. To find the 20 highest-paying jobs for engineering majors, PayScale first identified the most common jobs for those with a bachelor's degree (and nothing more) who work full-time in the US. Chief architects and vice president's of business development topped the list, both earning an impressive $151,000 a year.
If you're a systems engineer who wonders whether you've chosen the right profession, I bring you good news. Please take a deep breath, stand up, and be prepared to leap so high, you will touch the sky. Then you will, perhaps, want to touch the Skyy. For a survey has declared that systems engineer is the best job in America. Focus.com, perhaps spurred on by the grumbling that can be heard from so many places of work in the world, performed this most important of tasks.