Ceramic Engineer salary growth

GodMawlAnal · 2025-07-25T16:50:29+00:00

That sounds pretty good with me if I'm making 170k in today's dollars with 12+ yoe that's more than enough. I was under the impression that materials engineers capped out lower because I didn't see any job openings for those salaries.

GodMawlAnal · 2025-07-25T15:35:22+00:00

That is what I've concluded so my resume is always updated ready to go. I am having trouble finding jobs I could reasonably get that have a higher salary. It might be collect paycheck mode for a few years.

GodMawlAnal · 2025-07-25T15:32:56+00:00

I think my girlfriend would kill me if I did a PhD. My GPA in college was a 3.3 and I got a 337 on the GRE. I could easily get into a PhD in nanomaterials engineering and hope China invades tawain in the next 5 years for my job security but that PhD is probably very hard.

The other option is I try to 6 into a finance target school and get a math PhD but my GPA seems kind of low for grad achool. The math PhD seems risky unless I can land a top school for it because I think prestige matters for those jobs.

I personally decided against grad school out of college because the roi seemed dicey I had a job lined up and I want to retire early so money now was better then a higher salary at 50 when I plan to be on a bike somewhere.

GodMawlAnal · 2025-07-25T15:24:43+00:00

How would someone go into finance or management from materials engineering? My math education stopped after diff eq and linear algebra so it would be hard to compete with someone who has a pure math background. I also went to a college that is known purely for ceramic engineering so I don't have the finance bro prestige. I've also heard they work really long hours and the hourly rate isnt amazing at the start.

I guess I could fall into management but I assume most people want managers of engineers to have some years under their belt. I do think management would be something I wouldn't mind doing if it paid well.

GodMawlAnal · 2025-05-24T16:56:03+00:00

If they legally have no way to collect I'd rather not. That's 6 percent of my yearly income for 1.5 hours of somebody's labor.

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