From an extremely limited bit of Google-searching, it appears that biomedical engineers are paid substantially less ($50-80k) than the vast majority of other engineers. Any particular reason why? I would have actually thought that the biomedical field would be one of the higher-paying ones.
(I’m not planning to go into the field at all, just wondering why.)
Every major hospital will have a Biomedical Engineering department to take care of the equipment. A typical organizational structure would be a Chief Engineer having authority of several Staff Engineers (perhaps one over electronics, one for radiology, etc…) and many more technicians. The Staff Engineers are the link between the equipment manufacturer and the technicians.
The engineers who work for the equipment manufacturer are more likely to be titled as an X Engineer as opposed to a Biomedical Engineer. That is, a mechanical engineer who works designing ventilators is likely to be a Mechanical Engineer and a colleague who designs the electronic interface and control system would be an Electrical Engineer.
In short, the engineers designing and building sophisticated medical equipment and implants are typically not Biomedical Engineers.
The college I went to offered a biomedical engineering degree. It was considered the most difficult degree at the entire school since they had to master electrical and mechanical engineering concepts as well as the medical elements. However, they were always at the top of the compensation reports. I think a lot more BE grads went on the graduate school than other engineers.