Engineer - Case I

After talking about the case tat engineer switch to financial area. Maybe I should talk about some cases where the engineers remain engineers.

In this case, I would talk about a successful case:

Sex: Female
Degree: Graduate from NTU on year 2001, Bachelor of Applied Science, 3-year degree without honours.
First job 2002: Engineer at an American MNC, starting pay around $2700.
Second job 2004: Engineer at an European MNC, with pay around $3100. (Notice how much is the pay increment over the time and job switch)
Now 2008: Stick to the same company, with pay around $4500.

I should say that this is a quite a "successful" engineer, by having her pay increase from $3000 to $4500 over 4-yr period. However if you compare to the fresh NUS graduate with starting pay $4000 that I mentioned previously, or those SMU fresh graduate, her pay is terrible!! After working for 6 years, her pay only slightly better than those fresh graduate.

I will talk about her strategies on having her pay rise over the past 4-year, apparently, this is not the norm.....

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