Financial engineer vs Actuary

mushrooman · May 27th, 2005, 9:10 am

Financial engineer vs ActuaryIn general, which one is better paid? Thanks.

Zonk · May 27th, 2005, 1:13 pm

Shrooman,Financial engineers are way better paid. Actuarial pay is closely tied to their exam performance and it takes years to get a high salary. Actuaries start in the $40's typically and gradually go up as they do their 9 or so exams. Once you finish the exams after like 10 yrs you can get 120+ though. But financial engineers get richer faster.