Engineers at Apple and Tesla or BMW are paid high salaries, right from the day you graduate. If you promise yourself to study hard, put in research papers, interact with the faculty and the visiting delegates/professors/industry specialists while you are pursuing your degree in a US or a UK University, you can have a career most others can only dream of. Take the case of a student from Noida who went on to study engineering in the USA, being accepted in CALTEC, and got offers from both Apple and Google even before he got his degree. Yes, these stories are real. And the pay grade is what we can only dream about.