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Engineering salaries and job satisfaction up
Sylvie Barak
8/9/2012 5:52 PM EDT
Engineer salaries are on the up and up according to a new survey over on our sister website, Design News.
For the second year in a row, engineers are seeing their salaries being bumped to an average of $96,813, up from $93,465 last year, with 69 percent seeing an increase in base salary since 2011.
Just two percent saw their salaries decrease, while 29 percent say their salary has remained unchanged.
Bonuses were consecutively higher this year too, with an average of $11,906, up from $9,440.
The Southwest United States still appears to be the hot spot as far as higher salaries are concerned, though New England comes a close second, followed by the Midwest.
Despite all the hype surrounding software, it’s actually electronics engineers who are the most highly compensated for their work, but overall it’s employees working in the semiconductor industry that take home the largest paycheck, with average salaries of around $115,772 and bonuses of $17,546. The defense industry comes a close second.
While salary certainly pays the bills, job satisfaction is as important, if not more so, and thus it’s highly encouraging to see Design News report that over 56 percent of respondents are extremely or very happy with their current positions.
Meanwhile, 52 percent cited that their jobs were either extremely or very challenging, with work/life balance mentioned as a particular pain point. Compared to last year’s results, 42 percent of engineers said their jobs were now more stressful.
Despite high unemployment across the country, however, only 23 percent of engineers admitted to feeling particularly concerned about job security, and 44 percent said their company had hired people in the last year.
Indeed, a whopping 71 percent of engineers said they felt appreciated and respected in the workplace, with an even more impressive 83 percent saying they would recommend an engineering career to their children.
Respect and appreciation aside, however, there were 36 percent of engineers surveyed who said they felt engineering roles were being outsourced to China more often than was necessary.
For more insight, statistics and information, you can read more on Design News.
For the second year in a row, engineers are seeing their salaries being bumped to an average of $96,813, up from $93,465 last year, with 69 percent seeing an increase in base salary since 2011.
Just two percent saw their salaries decrease, while 29 percent say their salary has remained unchanged.
Bonuses were consecutively higher this year too, with an average of $11,906, up from $9,440.
The Southwest United States still appears to be the hot spot as far as higher salaries are concerned, though New England comes a close second, followed by the Midwest.
Despite all the hype surrounding software, it’s actually electronics engineers who are the most highly compensated for their work, but overall it’s employees working in the semiconductor industry that take home the largest paycheck, with average salaries of around $115,772 and bonuses of $17,546. The defense industry comes a close second.
While salary certainly pays the bills, job satisfaction is as important, if not more so, and thus it’s highly encouraging to see Design News report that over 56 percent of respondents are extremely or very happy with their current positions.
Meanwhile, 52 percent cited that their jobs were either extremely or very challenging, with work/life balance mentioned as a particular pain point. Compared to last year’s results, 42 percent of engineers said their jobs were now more stressful.
Despite high unemployment across the country, however, only 23 percent of engineers admitted to feeling particularly concerned about job security, and 44 percent said their company had hired people in the last year.
Indeed, a whopping 71 percent of engineers said they felt appreciated and respected in the workplace, with an even more impressive 83 percent saying they would recommend an engineering career to their children.
Respect and appreciation aside, however, there were 36 percent of engineers surveyed who said they felt engineering roles were being outsourced to China more often than was necessary.
For more insight, statistics and information, you can read more on Design News.
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agk
8/10/2012 6:31 AM EDT
This write up reflects the feelings of the engineering family.It is impressive to see that 83% of engineers will recommend an engineering career to their children
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resistion
8/13/2012 11:30 AM EDT
It's practically 100% unsafe to recommend careers to children. They observe the truth anyway.
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Luis Sanchez
8/29/2012 11:27 AM EDT
Good. Personally I’ve never felt more satisfied with my job. As an engineer I’m getting to do something I like to do. And learning every day is an important part. I would recommend this career to my children. Of course, one has to be able to see what are the natural assets the young ones bring. It wouldn’t be fair to insist in engineering if they struggle much with mathematics and have a great deal of social skills.
The economy isn’t at its best now, but it’s in a good enough spot to allow people to be consuming electronics. A lot of innovation is bringing new products and media delivery is using tablets and phones as the final node. There are top competitors in the industry and they have the budget to invest in new fields, like Intel going to wireless and Qualcomm to processors. All this adds to better salaries in the engineering field. And it’s great isn’t it?
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