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After 10-year surge, EE salaries level off at $89k (EE Salary Survey)
EE Times ^
| August 28, 2003
| EE Times Staff
Posted on 09/28/2003 10:40:37 AM PDT by nwrep
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09/28/2003 10:40:38 AM PDT
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nwrep
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:42:57 AM PDT
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nwrep
To: nwrep
pay raises in the US are effectively 0%. and if you lose your job, be prepared to take a 30% salary cut, if you can even find a comparable new job, which is unlikely.
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:44:20 AM PDT
by
oceanview
To: oceanview
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:46:32 AM PDT
by
oceanview
To: nwrep
Dang. I need to finish college, apparently...
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:46:41 AM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(I like my women like I like my coffee - Hot, and in a big cup)
To: nwrep
Ok, I'll bite. To what do you attribute the lower pay for blacks? When I first looked at the stats, I thought it might be because there haven't been that many black engineers over the past 20 years or so (tho I've known a lot of black engin majors over the same time period). But Hispanics make more? I can't imagine there were many of them in engineering, either.
When my son was in undergrad in the mid/late 90s, he knew a lot of Vietnamese who were engineering - not because they wanted to be, in fact, many of them hated it. However, they were dutiful Asian children and their parents demanded that they major in a field that could get them a job.
Just curious, not looking to start an argument.
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:55:00 AM PDT
by
radiohead
To: nwrep
None of the salaries discussed in the article will allow one to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the San Francisco Bay Area.
More to the point, knowing how much financial professionals get paid around here, I would say that EE's are drastically underpaid, given the amount of education and effort needed to prepare for the profession.
To: nwrep
Don't know about you, but most of the EE's I work with aren't worth $89K.
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posted on
09/28/2003 10:59:36 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Ideas in tagline are closer than they appear.)
To: radiohead
To what do you attribute the lower pay for blacks? Radio, I would guess it is a statistical artifact of this survey. There were so few black respondents, that the results for black engineers are not statistically valid.
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posted on
09/28/2003 11:00:09 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: radiohead
that's easy: they have fewer years of experience in the positions they hold, and thus earn less.
and regarding the highly paid indians: they have management slots in which they are responsible for offshoring their co-workers jobs, so they get good bonuses for that (not a joke).
To: nwrep
BTTT, and thanks for posting this.
To: oceanview
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
To: Mr. Jeeves
Why do you think their is an exodus from Kalifornia?
To: ItisaReligionofPeace
if you have any first hand information about what is happening in this field, please post it.
To: radiohead
I once worked with a Vietnamese engineer who spent most of his time avoiding work. He would sit conspicuously at his desk all day (when he should have been in the lab) playing with a folded paper "football". (This was before the internet)
When rumors of layoffs started flying, we pulled him aside one day and suggested that he should at least learn how to look busy if he wanted to keep his job.
He laughed and said "I'm trying to dispel the stereotype of hard working Asians."
He got canned in the first round of layoffs in spite of his great sense of humor.
To: Mr. Jeeves
that why people need to steer their college bound children into other areas. a technician/mechanic at a high end car dealership like mercedes makes $85K. and they don't need a masters degree, and all that debt from a college education.
To: oceanview
if current trends continue, much of the EE and CS professsional jobs in the US will be gone in 10 years. Uh, they're talking about chip fab in that article, a highly specialized EE field.
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posted on
09/28/2003 11:21:36 AM PDT
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: oceanview
True, I know good people who have been looking for 6-12 months.
To: randog
the fabs are almost gone, they are talking about the design now. and as that article says, those will be gone soon too. we aren't talking 6 months here, but give it 5-7 years.
To: oceanview
that's easy: they have fewer years of experience in the positions they hold, and thus earn lessi figured that. but i also assume that hispanics have fewer years in the field. i could be wrong and welcome education on the numbers of US hispanic engineers compared to blacks.
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