A recent article in Industrial Distribution covered a couple of points on salaries.  I thought it was worth sharing. Grads from Texas A&M's Distribution program are getting multiple job offers and that impacts starting salaries : Another top-notch university, Texas A&M, has an outstanding industrial distribution program and on its website points out that every student in its ID program had a job at graduation. Many of those students were offered jobs in sales engineering and sales management. The graduates received an average of three job offers, and the average starting salary was $52,000 with some receiving up to $70,000. The article quotes the Wall Street Journal on sales compensation: S ales reps who peddle technical and scientific products earned a median annual wage of $74,970 in 2012, more than twice the median for all workers, according to the Labor Department. A competitive hiring market for science a...