If I want to have a high income, are management jobs or having my own company the only ways?

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Before anything, note that I have graduated not long ago, so what I say may be biased or incomplete - which is why I am here.

My situation:

• I am 26.


• I have a double-degree from a top French engineering school and a top 10 US university.


• I have worked as a 3D Vision engineer for a couple years.


• I am now doing a PhD (in my first year) in 3D Vision / Artificial Intelligence in a famous French research institute.


• I am fluent in English / French / Portuguese / Spanish.

My question comes from the fact that, once I finish my PhD, my expected initial salary seems to be about 45k€ at best where I work now - while people in other domains (e.g. consulting / medical field) or countries (UK / US) seem to earn way, way more. Even worse, the salaries of some people in the government or executives in public companies just make me outright sick (400k€+).

So my conclusion is that - unfortunately - if I stay working as just an engineer, I will hardly ever have a high income (100k€+ ?).

The only ways out I can think of is either to go for management jobs (maybe an MBA?) or to have my own company - and the sooner the better, as people who are in executive positions do not seem to have worked for a long time in technical positions.

Am I missing something obvious here?

PS : As a sidenote, France seems worse than the US tax-wise and investment-wise (higher taxes and stingy investors, no options as good as the 401(k)).

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Before anything, note that I have graduated not long ago, so what I say may be biased or incomplete - which is why I am here.

My situation:

• I am 26.


• I have a double-degree from a top French engineering school and a top 10 US university.


• I have worked as a 3D Vision engineer for a couple years.


• I am now doing a PhD (in my first year) in 3D Vision / Artificial Intelligence in a famous French research institute.


• I am fluent in English / French / Portuguese / Spanish.

My question comes from the fact that, once I finish my PhD, my expected initial salary seems to be about 45k€ at best where I work now - while people in other domains (e.g. consulting / medical field) or countries (UK / US) seem to earn way, way more. Even worse, the salaries of some people in the government or executives in public companies just make me outright sick (400k€+).

So my conclusion is that - unfortunately - if I stay working as just an engineer, I will hardly ever have a high income (100k€+ ?).

The only ways out I can think of is either to go for management jobs (maybe an MBA?) or to have my own company - and the sooner the better, as people who are in executive positions do not seem to have worked for a long time in technical positions.

Am I missing something obvious here?

PS : As a sidenote, France seems worse than the US tax-wise and investment-wise (higher taxes and stingy investors, no options as good as the 401(k)).

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Before anything, note that I have graduated not long ago, so what I say may be biased or incomplete - which is why I am here.

My situation:

• I am 26.


• I have a double-degree from a top French engineering school and a top 10 US university.


• I have worked as a 3D Vision engineer for a couple years.


• I am now doing a PhD (in my first year) in 3D Vision / Artificial Intelligence in a famous French research institute.


• I am fluent in English / French / Portuguese / Spanish.

My question comes from the fact that, once I finish my PhD, my expected initial salary seems to be about 45k€ at best where I work now - while people in other domains (e.g. consulting / medical field) or countries (UK / US) seem to earn way, way more. Even worse, the salaries of some people in the government or executives in public companies just make me outright sick (400k€+).

So my conclusion is that - unfortunately - if I stay working as just an engineer, I will hardly ever have a high income (100k€+ ?).

The only ways out I can think of is either to go for management jobs (maybe an MBA?) or to have my own company - and the sooner the better, as people who are in executive positions do not seem to have worked for a long time in technical positions.

Am I missing something obvious here?

PS : As a sidenote, France seems worse than the US tax-wise and investment-wise (higher taxes and stingy investors, no options as good as the 401(k)).

management salary france

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Before anything, note that I have graduated not long ago, so what I say may be biased or incomplete - which is why I am here.

My situation:

• I am 26.


• I have a double-degree from a top French engineering school and a top 10 US university.


• I have worked as a 3D Vision engineer for a couple years.


• I am now doing a PhD (in my first year) in 3D Vision / Artificial Intelligence in a famous French research institute.


• I am fluent in English / French / Portuguese / Spanish.

My question comes from the fact that, once I finish my PhD, my expected initial salary seems to be about 45k€ at best where I work now - while people in other domains (e.g. consulting / medical field) or countries (UK / US) seem to earn way, way more. Even worse, the salaries of some people in the government or executives in public companies just make me outright sick (400k€+).

So my conclusion is that - unfortunately - if I stay working as just an engineer, I will hardly ever have a high income (100k€+ ?).

The only ways out I can think of is either to go for management jobs (maybe an MBA?) or to have my own company - and the sooner the better, as people who are in executive positions do not seem to have worked for a long time in technical positions.

Am I missing something obvious here?

PS : As a sidenote, France seems worse than the US tax-wise and investment-wise (higher taxes and stingy investors, no options as good as the 401(k)).

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