Do non-engineers get treated, from a compensation and career progression standpoint, the same as engineers?
Curious about Geology, commercial, controllers and research.
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Fake questions are going to result in fake answers. Downstream 29 here making more than what the pseudo- upstreamer says. If you really are working for EM, you know why the pseudo upstreamer is lying.
Anyone in EM in US also knows the answer to the OP question so they would not ask something like that
Non-MPTs used to be able to rise fairly high, but, not any more. Those spots are now reserved for HiPos to punch their tickets. Now .non MPTs are underrepresented, overworked and treated like cr@p.
@1ydf+1fHDXn79. If you are doing so darn well, why on a beautiful Sunday afternoon are you on a layoff website in your old bedroom at you mama and daddy's house?
I'm on here now because of disabilities caused by someone else have relegated me to psychological confinement in what is now my wife's house crying meme meant to follow...
Oh, I forgot to mention than last 18 years were spent working in countries that the former would never consider due to fear... I have been a mercenary for my retirement and it has worked!
No College Degree here. last W-4 from company claimed I earned $705k last year.
You gotta know how to get where your going.. If working is for personal satisfaction or self worth, then be happy with less. If working is to gain retirement funding, play the game. If you do get layed off or PIP'd, apparently you were in the former and not latter group.
Absolutely not. Left and got a 70% raise and a role where I feel much more respected.
Too bad cause I thought EM would be cool. Oh well
Well, I can only speak for myself as an EM upstream (CL29) engineer who topped out at $328k per year + matching + benefits + international wage tax protection, etc.
BUT, here is the kicker.. I rotated (28/28) for three decades, month on - month off, and still a got full yearly salary. Ha! The best deal in the oil field.
So here is my advice to you: unless your skills are core and in demand, seek other work. My focus was international deepwater construction and my skill sets were almost constantly demand.
Or, if you are just sort of an average employee (regardless of you discipline) and/or in a non core position, seek other work in which you are core and in demand. You only have one life, go for it. Good luck and peace.
You can make good money as an employee but you must be core and in demand; otherwise just move along.
No, Geos historically were paid the highest on average but were also hit the hardest by layoffs.
Controllers have always been the bottom of the barrel, treated worse than EMIT.
We are all treated poorly, except the HiPos and their corrupt sponsors.
Ummm. NO. Used to be a little more balanced, less so these days