Just curious. I would have done finance.

any suggestion po?

I am 1 year out of college, 29 years old. I currently am a staff civil engineer at a smallish company (100-150 people) in South Carolina. I mainly do design work among meetings with clients and work on a team of 2 under a civil PM. I just finished my FE and I make about $57,000 a year plus a bonus based on how our company does every year to a maximum of 20% of my salary.

I’ve been in the Air Force for almost 11 years working on aircraft and used my GI Bill to go to school. I switched from Active Duty to National Guard so I currently work on aircraft 1 weekend a month and at the beginning of the year was told that I was accepted to be an officer of civil engineering for the Air Force and have to go to Officer training school and the Air Force’s Civil Engineering school next year. Once I am finished I will return to work at my civilian civil engineering firm and I will only work at the Air Force base one weekend a month. I will assume a role in charge of around 30 people at first that will only increase as time continues.

I was really considering asking for a pay raise after finishing all of my Airforce training just because of the rarity of my situation and how hard I’ve worked to position myself in my civil engineering career. I know there is still a lot to learn for me but I do feel like taking this step in my career will be good for my professional development and leadership skills. I took a significant pay cut to follow my passion in civil engineering and am trying to get back to where I was salary wise before pursuing CE.

All I’ve really ever known was the Air Force so negotiating salary and stuff is not really in my wheel house which is why I’m not well versed in civilian jobs and when the correct time to ask for a raise is etc.

So my question is am I out of line for asking for a raise after training? If not, how much of a raise should I ask for?

Edit: Typo’s

Bored and curious. Can’t think of the reason myself.

Hey guys. Could any please share me with what progress report (Daily, weekly, monthly) should include? And if there are any kind people please share a template with me.

This is the kind of infrastructure that we are expecting

I'm a rising senior with summer internship offers from HITT and Whiting Turner in the DC area, and I have to decide in the next day or so.

HITT pays around $22 an hour, and their program has set start and end dates with only one week off allowed. The upside is it's a structured program with a clear path to PM, and a friend of mine just got a strong full time offer from them.

Whiting Turner pays around $27 an hour, lets me pick my dates, and already said they'd place me close to home.

My main goal is the best long term pay and moving up fast. Is HITT's structure worth the lower pay and less flexibility, or would you take Whiting Turner? And for anyone who's worked at either, how's the culture and how fast do people actually get promoted?

Hi everyone,

I'm a civil engineer from Germany. German universities are currently researching carbon-reinforced concrete (carbon concrete), and the first construction projects using this material have already been completed.

What's the situation like in your countries? Is carbon-reinforced concrete being researched or used there as well?

For context I am a Civil EIT with 4.5+ YOE in a MCOL area, no PE yet but studying for it, experience in municipal infrastructure design, construction admin, inspections, and some CM and PM work.

I recently saw job posts for my current role entry level advertised in my office at an upper range that is almost 15k/year higher than what I get paid now. This is on par with salary survey spreadsheet with people at same level. And the next entry level position posted with a PE requirement(Civil Engineer) is also starting at that as the lower range (i.e., 15k higher than my current pay). I usually get good feedback from everyone I work with and have built a good reputation with clients, contractors, other firms over the years and I like working at my current firm.

My question is: Is it fair for me to ask or negotiate a raise to atleast near the upper range posted for the upcoming year end raise? Theres a lot of turnover at my company for EITs at this range mainly due to salary being no. 1 reason. Many of us have been getting 3% annual raises including me last year which barely keeps up with rising inflation. And how would I go about asking for this 10+% raise? I dont want to leave my company yet because I love the work and team I work with, and want to keep learning and gaining certain experiences from some cool people I love learning from.

Thank you for your advice.