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What aerospace engineers make
Licensed (P.Eng)
$104,000
Engineer-in-training
$70,000
Senior or specialist
$208,000
Job Bank's national numbers put aerospace a little above mechanical engineering, and the top end is pulled up by senior specialists and managers. Bombardier, Pratt and Whitney Canada and CAE (the flight simulator maker) in the Montreal area set the going rate. Defence and space jobs pay about the same.