Best Paying Engineering Jobs

By siliconindia  |   Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 01:41 IST
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Electrical Engineer



Average Salary: 1.40 Lakh To 7.68 Lakh



Educational Requirement: Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering



Electrical engineering is ‘evergreen’, in terms of pay packages, job prospects and future scope. This core discipline of engineering is the heart of ever other disciple in the engineering sector and hence there will always be a demand for these professional irrespective of the economy or the job market.



Materials Engineer



Average Salary: 1.29 Lakh To 11.76 Lakh



Educational Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in Material Science or Material Engineering



This is one of the ‘sunshine’ jobs of the 21th century and this is for a reason. At a time when the entire world is waiting with bated breaths for new and improved products made up of composite or semiconductor materials that can meet all the mechanical, chemical and electrical standards, being a material engineer can be extremely lucrative. And the pay packages garnered by these professionals are a clear indication of this trend.



Nuclear engineers, environmental engineering and biomedical engineers are some of the other professions who have made it to this list of best paying engineering jobs.



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