According to NACE’s April 2014 Salary Survey, engineering majors held 8 of the top 10 spots on the list of top-paid majors for the Class of 2014 bachelor’s degree graduates. Graduates in petro­leum engineering were the highest paid at $93,500, earning $28,000 more than the next highest paid at $67,300. Civil engineering graduates were the tenth highest paid at $62,100. Assuming the start­ing salary of petroleum engineering graduates stays the same for the next 10 years, what annual increase in pay would be required for civil engi­neering graduates to receive the same starting sal­ary as that of petroleum engineering graduates?

What will be an ideal response?


62,100(1 + f)¹? = 93,500
1 + f = (1.50564)^0.1
f = 0.0418 (4.18% per year)

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