Engineering is an extremely popular education stream among Indians, almost 15 lakh engineering graduates pass out from Indian Education system every year. You might be wondering which type of engineering pays off the best remuneration, or in another words Which type of engineering has the highest salary? Then answer is not that simple, pay packages can be different from country to country and from company to company However we will try to answer the question in more of a generalist way, and based on average industry practices, as you may understand same engineer in a start-up might have a less salary than a tech giant like google would pay to its fresh recruit. Having said that let us look for highest paying engineering jobs.
Artificial Intelligence Engineering:
Although a part of computer sciences engineering but this emerging field of computers is having highest paying jobs in India an AI engineer salary median is whopping 15 lakh to 17 lakh per annum which makes it top contender in our list of highest paying engineering jobs.
Data Engineering:
An emerging field and acute shortage of data engineers made the field of data scientists as second contender for our list. Average salary for experienced candidate is 10-14 lakh / annum which makes data engineering as second position holder for the list. Although it can be a sub part of computer science discipline but the demand for data scientists makes it a separate engineering discipline in terms of salary bifurcation. Also, because data science can also be pursued by non B. Tech candidates that’s why we have kept it separate from the computer engineering considering it as an entry point for non-engineers into engineering discipline.
Aerospace Engineering:
Average pay package for aerospace engineering goes from 7-9 lakh/ annum. Which makes it next in our list of highest paying engineering jobs in India.
Computer Engineering:
Computer engineering remains in one of our top position for highest paying jobs across all engineering sub departments. As we are living in a computerized global village this trend will continue for next 2 to 3 decades as anticipated. Average Fresher salary in Computer engineering sector is 5 lakh/annum and for an experienced professional of 5-6 years the average is 15 lakh /annum. Which makes it one of the highest medians for engineering job markets for experienced candidates.
Civil Engineering:
India is a Under Construction country, and we can see civil development everywhere, from highways to damns and from commercial to public utility buildings are getting constructed across the country. A skilled civil engineer with decent experience can easily fetch up to 8-12 lakh packagesannually. Moreover, civil engineering remains one of the most job opulent sectors in engineering fields.
Chemical Engineering:
Chemical engineers can build their careers from production plant life to technical sales and business enterprise management. The marketplace for chemical engineers is anticipated to be flat over the following few years. But earlier chemical engineers tend to attract huge number of talented aspirants currently the Job boom,in strongly associated fields, like biomedical engineering, is anticipated to be plenty quicker comparative to chemical engineering. But as chemical engineers remain in highly payable job that is why this field has made it to our list of highest paying engineering jobs.
We have tried to cover most prominent engineering sectors which will remain relevant for at least next few decades and would like to affirm that this list is not exhaustive. We have source the salary data from various websites thus we do not take responsibility for data accuracy. However, we have tried to keep it as relevant as possible.
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