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 average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10% highest paid) is $88,330. The median annual salary is $35,080. The average annual salary for the bottom 10% earners is $18,190. We note that the top 10% workers are paid nearly five times more than the bottom 10% workers in the United States.