r/ChemicalEngineering • u/MistakeSea6886 • Sep 21 '23

Salary What’s the most profitable career path?

I’m a freshmen Engineering major that is taking gen Ed’s. I am thinking of switching to chemical engineering next year. I really like ChE but but want to pick a profitable career path, which is why I’m on the fence between it and Computer science. I did research and found that petroleum engineering is very profitable, and ChE can pick it pretty quickly. However with the way the world is going(more green energy), are renewable energy jobs such as nuclear power plants going to experience a boom in demand and become more profitable?

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u/Flan-Additional Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23

Contract work. Made $80/hr on a contract as a W2 employee when I only had two years of experience. This is as a pharmaceutical manufacturing process engineer. Working on getting my PE license now. I can find something at a rate of at least $100/hr after that.