1. Electrical Power Engineering

Early Career Pay: $68,600
Mid-Career Pay: $119,100

Power engineering, also called power systems engineering, is a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power, and the electrical apparatus connected to such systems. Although much of the field is concerned with the problems of three-phase AC power – the standard for large-scale power transmission and distribution across the modern world – a significant fraction of the field is concerned with the conversion between AC and DC power and the development of specialized power systems such as those used in aircraft or for electric railway networks. Power engineering draws the majority of its theoretical base from electrical engineering.

2. Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

Early Career Pay: $69,000
Mid-Career Pay: $118,800

3. Computer Systems Engineering

Early Career Pay: $72,000
Mid-Career Pay: $118,000

Engineers working in computer systems work on research projects that allow for reliable, secure, and high-performance computer systems. Projects such as designing processors for multi-threading and parallel processing are included in this field. Other examples of work in this field include development of new theories, algorithms, and other tools that add performance to computer systems.

4. Computer Science (CS) & Engineering

Early Career Pay: $70,900
Mid-Career Pay: $116,800

5. Computer Engineering (CE)

Early Career Pay: $70,300
Mid-Career Pay: $116,000

Computer engineering is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering (or electrical engineering), software design, and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering. Computer engineers are involved in many hardware and software aspects of computing, from the design of individual microcontrollers, microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design. This field of engineering not only focuses on how computer systems themselves work, but also how they integrate into the larger picture.

6. Electrical Engineering (EE)

Early Career Pay: $67,800
Mid-Career Pay: $114,800

Electrical/Electronics engineering technology (EET) is an engineering technology field that implements and applies the principles of electrical engineering. Like electrical engineering, EET deals with the “design, application, installation, manufacturing, operation and/or maintenance of electrical/electronic(s) systems.” However, EET is a specialized discipline that has more focus on application, theory, and applied design, and implementation, while electrical engineering may focus more of a generalized emphasis on theory and conceptual design. Electrical/Electronic engineering technology is the largest branch of engineering technology and includes a diverse range of sub-disciplines, such as applied design, electronics, embedded systems, control systems, instrumentation, telecommunications, and power systems.

7. Computer Science (CS) & Mathematics

Early Career Pay: $62,800
Mid-Career Pay: $114,400

8. Computer & Information Science

Early Career Pay: $56,200
Mid-Career Pay: $111,300

Information and Computer Science (ICS) or Computer and Information Science (CIS) (plural forms, i.e. Sciences, may also be used) is a field that emphasizes both computing and informatics, upholding the strong association between the fields of information sciences and computer sciences and treating computers as a tool rather than a field.

9. Computer Science (CS)

Early Career Pay: $65,900
Mid-Career Pay: $110,100

Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers. It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

10. Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE)

Early Career Pay: $66,200
Mid-Career Pay: $107,400