Water Is Lifeblood of Tetra Tech But Its Bottom Line Is Still Thirsty
The young immigrant who came from a Chinese village 300 miles south of Shanghai has done well for himself in America. The engineering firm he has shepherded since 1988 is now a billion-dollar-plus entity with 8,000 people. And the onetime lowest-paid employee at Tetra Tech Inc. pocketed $334,000 in salary last year, not counting other compensation.
More than 40 years after Li-San Hwang left the Far East with $100 in his pocket for a civil engineering degree from Michigan State Universitythe school offered him the biggest scholarshipmoney is no longer as much of a worry for the chairman and CEO of Tetra Tech Inc.