Commissioning Engineers / Earnings. A question

[mondeoman]

Are they travelling internationally?

[dingg]

They'll be making that in oil and gas without too much trouble tbh

[Ross1988]

The commissioning engineers on my project in Sellafield do fk all and get paid a fortune for the privilege.

[hyperblue]

I work in power stations, I'd be surprised if they were on that much as a salaried employee but it sounds about right if they're contractors.

[phumy]

hyperblue said:

I work in power stations, I'd be surprised if they were on that much as a salaried employee but it sounds about right if they're contractors.

hyperblue what do you do on power plants and where are you based?

[anonymous-user]

150 K at 26 sounds a bit high, 150 K Uk eqivelant, after 40% tax i.e 90K tax free would be very easy to find in the oil industry in the middle east or China.

[phumy]

Ive been in Power Plant Commissioning for a few years, Im not sure what you mean by on target earning within commissioning. Which industry are these two 26 year olds in? Where are they commissioning, UK or overseas? Sometimes there is a bonus tied into a short term contract but its not ever anywhere near 90K gbp, ever.

There is good money to be made but thats overseas, in Saudi a good EPC commissioning manager could earn in the region of US$200k/per annum in the power industry, a commissioning engineer somehwere in the region of US$150k-180k, probably net of taxes. In Asia its a little lower but on a similar scale also net of taxes (in country taxes paid by client).

That kind of money is certainly not being offered in the UK on any power plant commissioning jobs, I know for a fact as I keep my eyes on whats going on in the "commissioning world", certainly not advertised anyway.

[GT03ROB]

Does not sound right at all. Be happy to be proved wrong but way too high for 25/26 staff postion.

Now as others have said if that's a contract incme, overseas & based on +60hr work weeks maybe.

[phumy]

So, what happened there then? The OP has disappeared along with his initial and interim posts. I wonder if he got rumbled by his 26 year old mates who were earning 150Kgbp....