June 2023 ChemE Salary Update

[u/Engineered_Logix]

I received this information from Sun Recruiting - thought others may find it interesting. Reposted as first post didn't include the photo.

Edit 1: Link to the full PDF below. There were some questions if an advanced degree was worth it. There's a chart comparing BS vs advanced degrees as a whole in the PDF. TLDR; no it's not unless you didn't pay for the graduate degree out of pocket. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqsMc1BaL3TlV1Da2ItRx3LCQPLG4Lh2/view?usp=sharing

Edit 2: Contribute to the salary data folks. It helps everyone knowing if they are being fairly compensated. I forwarded this PDF to my company's HR as well. https://www.sunrecruiting.com/salary-survey/

[u/Downtown_Cabinet7950]

ChemEs collectively need to nut up. This is fucking peanuts compared to things like Tech (even non-technical rolls in Tech like HR).

Our degree is harder and WLB is fucking 100x worse. It’s so easy to do a boot camp and boost your salary to $200-300k (I’ve had 5+ chemE friends do it in the bay).

There is fixing to be a major shortage of talent if this keeps up (in one sense I respect all the dinosaur companies we work for not giving into the inflation hype).

[u/Jumboloan → u/Downtown_Cabinet7950]

What is boot camp?