Engineering Degrees Dominate The Top Ten Highest Paying Degrees For 2013

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Engineering Degrees Dominate The Top Ten Highest
Paying Degrees For 2013
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• Engineering is a field that is applicable in
  every aspect of production and machinery or
  industrial processing. Since it is practical in
  nature, engineers try as much as is possible to
  keep up with the current and emerging issues and
  problems worldwide through the provision of
  solutions to these problems. This fact in itself,
  always keeps the industry a step ahead of the
  others sectors of the economy such as
  agriculture, entertainment or even religion.
• Engineering degrees dominate the top ten highest
  paying degrees because, unlike the other
  industries which are flooded with ready
  professionals qualified engineers are and will
  always remain few and therefore, tend to control
  their demand in the market. This also works for
  them because they are free to dictate their pay
  scales, making their careers even more
  attractive. This compared to others sectors,
  which more often than not are flooded by skilled
  professionals, gives engineers an upper hand in
  the job market.

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• Engineering as a career also deals with the most
  sensitive parts of production, without which
  production (which is the single most fundamental
  for the firm) would be at a standstill or
  paralyzed. For instance, engineers in the oil
  industry control production in a multibillion
  industry. Because of this, they control the major
  commodity's production. This factor, aside from
  their numbers in the work place, also makes their
  careers attractive, making them attract good
  salary perks, benefits, risk allowances and so
  on.
• The engineering courses also offer a chance for
  self employment. Thence, for firms to employ a
  professional, they need to provide payment that
  satisfies the engineer since he will always
  compare his earning as an employee to his
  earnings as an own boss. This in turn leads to
  high payment for most of the highly qualified
  engineers, taking them high on the earning scale
  world-wide.

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• Another factor which makes engineering dominate
  our current pay ranks is the fact that, some of
  the fields and environments in which they work
  are risky. For example, those dealing with
  chemical engineering are usually at higher risk
  of being harmed by chemicals and the chemical
  process. Thus, they are usually paid highly as a
  form of motivation or incentive, to make sure
  these although not so safe sectors actually run.
• Industries that highly rely on engineering
  always compete for the engineers since they are
  few. In order to win the competition, these
  industries quote higher salaries to attract the
  few professionals hence making engineering one of
  the highest paying careers.
• Since the engineers are professionals and they
  are scarce, most of them get jobs in different
  firms thus they end up working for more
  institutions at the same time hence doubling
  their pay.
• Whatever the circumstances, engineers' futures
  look bright as there still is no hope of the
  others sectors turning tables on them, based on
  recent surveys.  

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• Engineers will thus continue to dominate and
  thrive over other degrees in top ten paying
  industries, until something changes. That is why
  if you want to earn big amount of money you
  should consider being an engineer. To find out
  more about the various specialties of engineering
  or search a full list of engineering degree
  programs you can do so at our free online
  engineering career guide.
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