Real engineer here, mechanical working to design medical devices like plates and screws for trauma cases.

We average around $100k across the US, and on the extreme end can top out around $200k, but that’s a rare case. Typical top end is $150k with I’d say at least 12 years if experience.

Starting salary typically $70k.

This is for places that are average COL, so not San Francisco, and also not Alabama.

Yep! I am a mechanical engineer and manual machinist.

My experience with my own self hosting has led to my current added responsibility as IT for our 6 person startup. But 90% of my time is mechanical engineering.

Actual budget does do that! You can tie it to automatically import transactions via SimpleFIN.

https://actualbudget.org/docs/advanced/bank-sync/simplefin/

Some things you’ll need to manually do, like real estate valuations.