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More Salary Gains For Class of 2005
Average starting salary offers to new college grads continue to increase, according to the Fall 2005 issue of Salary Survey, published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Salary offers among computer science graduates, for example, rose just 3.3 percent over last year, but that increase spiked their average salary offer to $50,664. Information sciences and systems grads also fared well this year, posting a 3.6 increase that raised their average offer to $43,902. Among engineering graduates, most reported increases to their average starting salary offers. Chemical engineering grads saw one of the smaller increases, only 2.1 percent, inching their average offer to $53,639, still the second highest of all the engineering majors. Civil engineering graduates posted a stronger increase of 4.1 percent, raising their average offer to $43,774. Computer engineering graduates saw a 1.8 percent increase to their average salary offer, raising it to $52,242, and electrical engineering grads received a 1.3 percent increase, bumping their average offer to $51,773. The average salary offer to mechanical engineering graduates rose by 3.3 percent, pushing the average offer to $50,175.
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