General Texas real estate license requirements. You must be at least 18 years old, a citizen of the United States or a lawfully admitted alien, and a resident of Texas in order to receive your real estate license in Texas.
Salary Outlook. According to the BLS, mechanical engineers earned a median salary of $82,100 in 2013. The best-paid earned about $123,340, while the lowest-paid earned less than $52,550. Industries that pay well include oil and gas extraction as well as information services.omputer programmers, by comparison, make $80,930. The gap is wider for computer support specialists, who earn an average annual salary of $64,160. Still, some technology jobs, like information security analysts ($91,210) and IT managers ($132,570), earn more than mechanical engineers.
The state with the highest paying jobs was Maryland, at a mean $69,410 yearly, or $33.37 hourly. The city with the top compensation was Baltimore, Maryland, averaging $69,410 yearly, or $33.37 hourly. For rural areas, the best pay was in Southwest Maine at a mean $44,990 per year, or $21.63 per hour.