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RE: Salary

45.3% outsourcing Mechanical Design... wow.  I never would have thought it to be that high.

Ray Reynolds
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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RE: Salary

45%? Hmm, I think I can see why, as I design parts for our Chinese partners while receiving quotes for our parts from our German and Korean suppliers and discuss the progress on a job in the UK with the engineers over there. I think it's called global trade.

Interesting that only 10% have changed jobs in the past ten years.

Also interesting that 50% of respondents were paid more than me. Yet I have 22 years of experience, and am very highly rated in our objective forced ranking system. So either USAn engineers are better than Australian ones (a lot better) or there is some disparity in cost effectiveness!



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Greg Locock

RE: Salary

45%? Hmm, I think I can see why, as I design parts for our Chinese partners while receiving quotes for our parts from our German and Korean suppliers and discuss the progress on a job in the UK with the engineers over there. I think it's called global trade.

50% of respondents were paid more than me. Yet I have 22 years of experience, and am very highly rated in our somewhat objective company wide forced ranking system. So either USAn engineers are better than Australian ones (a lot better) or there is some disparity in cost effectiveness! I think that might explain part of your 45% as well.

Interesting that only 10% have changed jobs in the past ten years. Wow.

Cheers

Greg Locock

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Ray Reynolds may be absolutely right. He is referring to the computers left useful in America sometime in future.

RE: Salary

I posted this in a couple other threads, but it is relevant to this one especially> I received the following from Langer regarding their pay survey of ASME members. Based on this it appears that at least mechanical engineers that are members of the ASME are doing pretty well! Junior engineer has a median salary of $50000. That has got to be better than a cell phone salesman.....

This unique, 576-page publication reports the base salaries, other cash compensation, and total cash compensation of 8,963 members of ASME.

Nationwide, the median income of survey participants is $83,236.
The median income of some of the benchmark jobs investigated
were:

Research Director/Vice President ... $135,000
"Distinguished" Researcher ... $131,000
College/University Dept. Heads (11-12 mo. appt.) ...$125,000 Engineering Director/Vice President ... $123,100 Professor (11-12 month appointment) ... $120,000 Chief Marketing & Sales Executive ... $113,700 Environmental Manager ... $110,000 Consulting Branch Manager ... $103,500 Principal Consultant ... $102,000 Project Manager ... $95,000 Senior Engineer ... $84,000 Sales Representative ... $77,775 Intermediate Researcher ... $70,000 Project Engineer ... $63,775 Junior Researcher ... $50,047 Junior Engineer ... $50,000 Junior Consultant ... $42,700

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