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What is the basic salary for someone with a robotics career?

habibhabib Posts: 3
edited 2010-06-02 16:20 in Robotics
I have a career report and my topic is on robotics. Some of the info I need includes the typical beginning pay and the benefits. Please include sources if avalable.

Thanks in advance.



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Post Edited By Moderator (Dave Andreae (Parallax)) : 5/24/2010 8:50:43 PM GMT

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2010-05-24 22:18
    Even though this is probably spam, it might be a useful question for some of our junior high and high school students.

    A lot depends ...

    It depends on your formal education. It depends on where you got your training and what sort of other research and development is going on there. It depends on your informal education like what have you actually done successfully? Have you written anything like magazine articles or even been part of a team publishing research papers? What other things do you know? Have you developed anything for sale? How successful a product was it? Do you have any experience as an intern? Have you had summer jobs working in electronics or robotics or mechanics? Do you know how to build things? Can you use a lathe or any type of prototyping equipment?

    Have you worked in any kind of teaching situation, for example as a camp counsellor or tutor? All of these things show signs of maturity and responsibility, a valued trait in a new employee.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2010-05-27 03:15
    I would guess and say it has to do whether·the person is employed in engineering or not.· There are several fields that pay different.· My second guess would be based on the employer, who their customers are, how many employees they have and what their product value or product volume would be.· My other guess would be based on what their last hit record was and how well they sell themselves.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2010-05-27 04:02
    Just to throw a kink into things... It also would make a big difference if the work being done was contracted or not. Usually a contractor can get away with charging much, much more. This is to cover things like medical and other expenses that are normally rolled into a salaried workers pay.

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  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2010-05-27 13:30
    habib, you could also google it.·I believe a job should be approached with the mindset of a student. The employer is seen as teacher. My goal is to outsource and automate.

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  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2010-05-27 19:55
    the students from My College are starting at 38K to 46 K but one guy got 58K all are salarie based ..
    this is with a AS in " robotics and automation " AKA industrial Fanucs and ABBs and what not .

    Peter KG6LSE

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2010-05-29 01:26
    My buddy's son majored in Computer Science and just graduated from U of Washington. Starting salary at Microsoft: $80K !

    His roommate, who also knew some obscure programming languages, starts at $120K at Microsoft.

    Yowsah.

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  • FooWhoFooWho Posts: 17
    edited 2010-05-29 19:55
    Don't overlook availibility of posistions.· I think (though I could certainly be wrong) that finding a career in robotics may be difficult because the number of jobs may be small compared to the number of people who have reasonable skill sets to fill those positions.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2010-06-02 16:20
    If you get some sort of engineering degree, chances are you'll do well: www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

    Generally, robotics isn't a degree that the big universities have, but you can learn about the subject by taking something like ME, EE, CE, or CS.

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