[boc]

Or they just pay a lot more.

If Boeing was paying $500K+ TC for engineers in their early/mid career, you'd see a lot more expertise enter the field. Instead you basically have to go into tech or PE/IB to see that type of compensation fresh out of school. Especially when students are taking on hundreds of thousands in debt, the payback period becomes really important when considering career paths.

[dh2022]

I completely understand graduates would choose higher TC from tech/finance vs TC from Boeing. What I do not understand is why tech/finance companies would want to hire chemical engineering graduates.....

I know a few people who changed careers from biology to finance - but that was only after going back to school and getting some business degree....

[darod]

because they solve a lot of math problems very well.