Salary can be one of the most vital factors when considering a career path. “The median annual wage for mechanical engineers was $84,190 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half of the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and the other half earned less. The lowest 10% earned less than $54,420 and the highest 10% earned more than $131,350” (Salary). For example, when you start thinking about how you're going to make it in life, money often comes to mind. Mechanical engineering will offer a broad aspect of life and what you can actually do with it. This would allow me to be self-sufficient and I could provide for a future family. Earning a salary of at least $85,000 will empower me to have a comfortable life and be able to enjoy it. With the current rate of mechanization of industry, I could expect to earn much more soon and at the rate at which more and more students enroll in college, engineering will grow rapidly.