How much did your compensation go up after your got your masters?

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If you’re already in the industry, getting an advanced degree that isn’t a PhD doesn’t even have nominal monetary value for increasing the size of your initial offer. PhDs will usually come in at one level higher than entry level. However, when you factor in opportunity cost against an average engineer’s promotion cadence, even pursuing a PhD isn’t worth it.

The only time you’d want to get a masters is when you’re pursuing a career change and want to leverage the educational institutions’ career fair. This is how I made the switch from finance to tech.

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The only reason I got a Master’s was because my employer at the time had a very generous tuition reimbursement. So I paid almost nothing for it.

Boost in pay? Yes a bump because even in tech you have some leverage. Would I get a PhD? Probably not.

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