If you search for the highest-paid jobs or what industry will earn you more money you would definitely find engineering at the top of any list. For the full article, http://interestingengineering.com/10-richest-engineers-world/

  1. Carlos Slim – $60.4 billion; Carlos studied civil engineering in the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico and is now the CEO and chairman of Telmex, America Movil, Samsung Mexico and Grupo Carso.
  2. Jeff Bezov – $52.8 billion; The founder of the largest e-commerce platform Amazon has an electrical and computer science engineering degree.
  3. Michael Bloomberg – $43.4 billion; After studying electrical engineering in university, Bloomberg decided to turn to finance and founded his own company called Bloomberg L.P., a global financial software, data and media organization, where he holds 88% shares of the whole company.
  4. Charles Koch – $43 billion; Charles Koch received two M.Sc. in chemical and mechanical engineering from MIT and together with his brother founded a chemical and oil-refining company Koch Industries, where he currently holds a position of a CEO.
  5. David Koch – $43 billion; The other brother of the Koch Industries, David Kosh owns 42% of the company and is the Executive Vice President. Unlike his brother, David only studied chemical engineering, although still receiving both B.S. and an M.S.
  6. Larry Page – $38 billion; The CEO of Google co-founded the major search engine back in 1998 but owns only 16% of the shares. Having graduated with a master’s degree in computer science engineering from University of Stanford he now contributed to all the important decisions made in Google.
  7. Sergey Brin – $37.1 billion; The other co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, met Larry Page in Stanford and the two IT specialists started Google and became billionaires.
  8. Bernard Arnault – $35.5 billion; Bernard Arnault is the CEO of LVMH, a multinational luxury goods conglomerate owning Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessey.
  9. Mukesh Ambani – $22.8 billion; Indian chemical engineer Mukesh Ambani is the CEO and the largest shareholder of the second biggest company in India, Reliance Industries Limited. He completed a BE degree in chemical engineering.
  10. Thomas Kwok – $15.1 billion; After studying civil engineering in Imperial College London, Kwok received an MBA and decided to go into the real estate. He is now the chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, a real estate company in Hong Kong.