Some employers track employee hours worked in 15 minute increments, and the FLSA allows an employer to round employee time to the nearest quarter hour. However, an employer may violate the FLSA minimum wage and overtime pay requirements if the employer always rounds down.
College graduates in the class of 2015 with bachelorâs degrees in electrical engineering can expect an average starting salary of $57,000. Computer engineering graduates are close behind, with average salaries of $56,600. Next come mechanical engineering graduates with starting salaries of $56,000. For the last 20 years, Phil Gardner, who runs Michigan State Universityâs employment office, has been in charge of a broad-based survey that gathers starting salary information from thousands of employers across the country.
Of all engineering specialties, computer engineering jobs typically have some of the highest starting salaries. The BLS reported that in 2013, computer hardware engineers had a mean salary of $106,930. Hardware engineers in the 90th percentile for income made $154,810, while those in the 10th percentile made $64,620.