To convert time to just minutes: 1  2 hours is 2 hours * (60 minutes / 1 hour) = 2 * 60 minutes = 120 minutes. 2  45 minutes is 45 minutes * (1 minute / 1 minute) = 45 * 1 minutes = 45 minutes. 3  45 seconds is 45 seconds * (1 minute / 60 seconds) = 45/60 minutes = 0.75 minutes.
The average mechanical engineer in the United States earned $38.74 per hour, which comes to $80,580 per year as of 2009. The BLS reported earnings of $49,730 for lowest-earning tenth percentile and $117,550 at the top or 90 percentile level, a difference of over $67,000 per year.*.
The median annual wage for mechanical engineers was $80,580 in May 2012. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $52,030, and the top 10 percent earned more than $121,530.