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What petroleum engineers make
Median
$135,000
Lower end
$96,000
Upper end
$200,000
Job Bank's national median is $64.90 an hour, about $135,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower end ($46.25) and upper end ($96.15) are the bottom and top of the range for everyone in the group. The pay is high and the work is unstable: in the 2015 to 2016 downturn thousands of Calgary engineers lost their jobs and new-grad hiring nearly stopped.