vwbeetlvr

According to Marky Mark (wahlberg) in his not so famous hit song Wildside off Music for the people release in 1991,

(Suzy) wanted to be a chemical engineer, making 50-55 thousand a year...

According to this graph a starting wage is $55,000! (16 years later)



Every couple of years since 1991 i have always wondered what inflation did to that salary and today I was super bored and looked it up and now I would like a discussion on the topic.

damn_skippy

Mark Wahlburg was good in the departed but he wasn't Oscar worthy. I think he was a fool to give up such a promising singing career. I mean he could have been the first eminem if he just stuck with it. I mean he came up with dope ass shit like this.............



If you ain't in it to win it
Then get the hell out
I command you to dance
I wanna see motivation
Come on now feel the vibration




PURE MOTHERF_IN GENIUS. Then he just pissed it all away for a movie career a f-in movie career and all it got him was a oscar nomination.








































otherwise IMO

jonw9

On the bright side, Suzy is now making $82,000 / year.

The Bus

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes172041.htm

May I suggest to Suzy to move to Delaware, where chemical engineers are paid $22,000 more, on average?

ANDREMIKE

inflation for starting salary.... hogwash..... Ask yourself how much the minimum wage has gone up since 1991. It hasn't even been close to inflation...

CPA-ESQ.

He was singing about the starting wage in Boston in 1991

The Bus

The minimum is what we all aspire to.

Tracer Bullet

That's a great suggestion, if your goal is to drive Suzy to suicide.

al_bundy

what has the salary for chemical engineers with masters or phd's been like?

ChiTownAbs, Inc

and how many people earn minimum wage since 1991?

Bushdog

And since when did the minimum wage reflect changes in free market compensation? You are comparing a government imposed floor on salaries which would have been lower if not for the government coercion to the true market value of chemical engineer labor.

satellite

Are any chemical engineers reading this thread?

al_bundy

real ones or those with 1000 degrees?

rabbit77

I dropped out of chem E sophomore year.... I couldn't handle the heat (transfer).

Bushdog

Heat

Chem E's were in demand for some reason in the early '90s. Demand has lessened over the years so starting salary is more in line with other engineering majors now.

And don't worry about Susy, she's been getting regular raises througout the years.

And for what it's worth, I have a degree in engineering but not chem e, I hated chemistry.

Vibiana

vwbeetlvr

LOL, I'm the OP. I googled "chemical engineer 55 thousand" in my quest to research the topic at hand (forgetting all about this thread) and this is the third thing that came up, 5 years later!

Tracer Bullet

I hate you.

OldDude

But you are pre-assuming the answer. This graphs indicates around $65k starting:
http://chenected.aiche.org/chemical-...itial-payback/
Also indicates mid-career, and salaries for several engineering disciplines.

Another source says $66886 is the median starting salary for Chem Es.
Hopefully, Suzy is at least on the mid-career track or possibly a manager or director.

majorjoe23

If Mark Wahlberg was in charge of inflation, shit wouldn't have happened like this. He loves his family.

Sean O'Hara

I'm sorry, I just checked the lyrics for the song and Marky Mark does not appear to be using figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That throws his entire singing career into question.

emanon

Come on now, feel the inflation.

JumpCutz

Fuckin' Marky Mark.

argh923

Hodor.