Comparison of Mechanical Engineering salary to that of a Computer Science Engineering 

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Actually, the reason behind this is pretty simple, a computer science engineer doesn’t require a lot of expensive hardware for doing the projects ( exceptions – quantum computing, particular hardware research, or something like that ). A decent laptop and a high internet speed are sufficient for most of the work. 

 

If a Computer Science engineer makes a project of let’s say transferring files in a faster way or maybe something like making end-to-end encryption that is much better than today’s encryption. Now here comes, the implementation of these projects is really easy like it’s a matter of seconds to check the software by uploading it that it’s working or not and if unfortunately, they find out it’s not working properly, implementing the original software is not a major issue and also doesn’t cost them anything. 

 

But let’s say if a Mechanical Engineer had made a design of a power plant and take the plan to the higher officer, the cost of implementation of the plan, the time required to do that, the maintenance cost, and many variables come into play and most of the time it takes a lot of time to implement a fully working model of a mechanical engineering product than the computer science one. 

 

Actually, the same reason goes which creates the package difference, it’s an easy and fast process to show your worth in a product based company in computer science

 

In comparison to that of a mechanical one, and that’s why people of mechanical engineering branch generally don’t get a very high starting package but with time, if the engineer shows his/her capabilities, then definitely his or her worth in company increases and sure the package is. That’s why you see generally high-paying mechanical engineers to get a good position in a company in their 30’s or 40’s but on the other hand, young software engineers get a really good position (like Senior Developer) if they level up their skills. A very famous example of this we can take of Sundar Pichai the person who becomes the CEO of Google at the age of 42. 

And on the other hand, when we see the CEOs of mechanical Engineering oriented companies we find out that most of them become the chief officers of that company in their 50s and many times in their 60s. Although exceptions are always there we are talking about the majority. 

 

Is it impossible to get a high package in Mechanical Engineering at starting? 

 

I would say it’s definitely possible to get a very high package or salary but there are few things that you have to focus on. 

Now here we would talk about two paths that you can follow in order to have a good financial 

 

I will say no it’s definitely not impossible but you have to level up your skill, that is really relevant in Industries, other than this if you can publish some relevant research papers or got some useful patents this will surely gonna help you in your career. Lastly, I want to say be patient and try not to compare yourself with other branches, the kind of worth you can create is not gonna be created by a computer science person and try to keep up with your skills with the changing industries like that of automation.