Engineer in charge vs junior engineer

The differences between engineers in charge and junior engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become an engineer in charge, becoming a junior engineer takes usually requires 4-6 years. Additionally, an engineer in charge has an average salary of $98,834, which is higher than the $70,653 average annual salary of a junior engineer.

The top three skills for an engineer in charge include EIC, engineering support and safety regulations. The most important skills for a junior engineer are control systems, java, and C++.

Engineer in charge vs junior engineer overview

	Engineer In Charge	Junior Engineer
Yearly salary	$98,834	$70,653
Hourly rate	$47.52	$33.97
Growth rate	3%	2%
Number of jobs	28,324	107,703
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 70%
Average age	45	41
Years of experience	2	6

Engineer in charge vs junior engineer salary

Engineers in charge and junior engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Engineer In Charge	Junior Engineer
Average salary	$98,834	$70,653
Salary range	Between $80,000 And $120,000	Between $54,000 And $91,000
Highest paying City	Palo Alto, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	New Jersey	Washington
Best paying company	WMSN FOX 47 News, Madison	Apple
Best paying industry	Energy	Technology

Differences between engineer in charge and junior engineer education

There are a few differences between an engineer in charge and a junior engineer in terms of educational background:

	Engineer In Charge	Junior Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 67%	Bachelor's Degree, 70%
Most common major	Electrical Engineering	Civil Engineering
Most common college	Georgia Institute of Technology	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineer in charge vs junior engineer demographics

Here are the differences between engineers in charge' and junior engineers' demographics:

	Engineer In Charge	Junior Engineer
Average age	45	41
Gender ratio	Male, 95.6% Female, 4.4%	Male, 83.4% Female, 16.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.9% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 11.4% Asian, 14.3% White, 64.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.1% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% Asian, 16.7% White, 67.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	6%	5%

Differences between engineer in charge and junior engineer duties and responsibilities

Engineer in charge example responsibilities.

Review weekly metric reports to unsure require SLA are accomplish.
Manage day-to-day QA tasks as dictated by project launch schedule and collaborate across work-streams to validate actual test results against expect results
Coordinate equipment and tools and provide 24x7 on-call services to clients and field engineers in addition to EIC duties
Maintain an efficient wireline crew to ensure the clients of precise and timely operations before and during operations.
Work both onshore and offshore as a wireline field engineer, in both open hole and case hole environments.
Ensure compliance with HSE standards, resulting in high-value performance recognized/award by management.

Junior engineer example responsibilities.

Manage the collection of static HTML sites for marketing.
Manage Terraform and refactore from monolithic to application specific components.
Work on HTML, CSS & Java.
Used CSS, HTML/XHTML, and JavaScript to customize the front-end of a large web application.
Design the user interactive (UI) web pages using web technologies like HTML5, XHTML, and CSS3.
Work on the windows default firewall application.

Engineer in charge vs junior engineer skills

Common engineer in charge skills

EIC, 23%
Engineering Support, 21%
Safety Regulations, 15%
ISO, 9%
Wireline, 6%
DOT, 5%

Common junior engineer skills

Control Systems, 11%
Java, 8%
C++, 5%
C #, 5%
Windows, 5%
Troubleshoot, 5%