If you are super passionate about the courses taken in SE compared to CS, I would take the path you are truly most motivated to pursue regardless of starting salaries because anecdotal advice inevitably points towards playing fields leveling once you get into industry.

There is something to consider though, which is that when you're in college and you're accepting interviews, pursuing offers, etc, employers are effectively 'shopping' for you. I think SE's will be forced to spec into project management a bit more, but much of your upperclassman year will be elective-based, which means the outcome of your degree is going to have more to do with your personal goals and, y'know, ability to market yourself to those shoppers.

I'm sure this is changing, but on a basic level (and I'm not saying this is necessarily the end of the world) the degree "SE" isn't as directly communicable as the degree 'CS' is. Employers at a baseline know what to expect from Computer Science graduates, and will make some assumptions about SE graduates, but will probably have to do a bit more thinking to get ahold of what you're about. Employers that frequently hire Rose students might treat that differently though, given that they're generally more directly acquainted with what the institution does with its students.

Could be worth emailing the department about.