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Skills that raise your pay

• Seismic design

  Earthquake engineering is a specialty of its own on the West Coast and pays accordingly.

• Bridge design

  Long span and state highway work. Steady public money behind it.

• Analysis software and scripting

  Engineers who can automate repetitive modelling save their firm real hours.

• The separate structural engineer license

  A 16 hour exam. Required for certain buildings in some states and a mark of standing everywhere else.