• Atropos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Real engineer here, mechanical working to design medical devices like plates and screws for trauma cases.

    We average around $100k across the US, and on the extreme end can top out around $200k, but that’s a rare case. Typical top end is $150k with I’d say at least 12 years if experience.

    Starting salary typically $70k.

    This is for places that are average COL, so not San Francisco, and also not Alabama.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, that’s decent. Not fuck-you money, but decent.

      OP asked for any example, so I went with FAANGS, but wages there are inflated by being a bunch of monopolies all headquartered in the same place. Last I heard a senior dev in Canada makes like 60k.

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          1 day ago

          Well, maybe the guy I was talking to was underpaid. It’s definitely a lot less than in the 'states, though.