To convert time to just minutes: 1  2 hours is 2 hours * (60 minutes / 1 hour) = 2 * 60 minutes = 120 minutes. 2  45 minutes is 45 minutes * (1 minute / 1 minute) = 45 * 1 minutes = 45 minutes. 3  45 seconds is 45 seconds * (1 minute / 60 seconds) = 45/60 minutes = 0.75 minutes.
The average mechanical engineer in the United States earned $38.74 per hour, which comes to $80,580 per year as of 2009. The BLS reported earnings of $49,730 for lowest-earning tenth percentile and $117,550 at the top or 90 percentile level, a difference of over $67,000 per year.*.
Technical Engineer Salary. A Technical Engineer earns an average salary of $65,231 per year. The skills that increase pay for this job the most are Engineering Design and Software Development. People in this job generally don't have more than 20 years' experience.