structural engineer salary survey
structural engineer salary survey
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I was a self-employed structural engineer for five years, and after the business failed, I have finally received an offer from a company. I have ten years of structural engineering experience (residential and educational), a PE license, and a BSCE from a top university.
I've been offered $27 per hour, plus basic benefits, and a few paid days off per year. Feels low. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.
I dunno guys (and gals), is this my market rate nowadays? What are y'all earning? I can't find a decent salary survey online...
I've been offered $27 per hour, plus basic benefits, and a few paid days off per year. Feels low. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.
I dunno guys (and gals), is this my market rate nowadays? What are y'all earning? I can't find a decent salary survey online...





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Don't know about civil structures, but one can make more than twice that rate as a contractor in the aerospace industry.
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Dan - Owner

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I might have some advice for you, but first I would need to know who you voted for.
I'm a lot happier in TX.
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I can only offer my $0.02 and that's about all it's worth.
$27/hour does seem low. You can try to get them to go higher but someone else might step in. I would at least think you could get them to go a little higher after all, it is a negotiation.
Unless your failed consulting business is returning you more than $40.00/hour (counting for benefits and insurance), or you are open to moving, then you are probably best to take the position and continue looking for another job (any port in a storm right). $27.00/hour is better than $0.00/hour.
Ugh... things can't stay this way forever.
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Mike McCann
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I am in the SF Bay Area and it seems the only people out there offering work right now are the lowballers. It is very expensive to live here and your compensation needs to be sufficient. I'd expect at your experience level to be offered closer to $35-$40/hr.
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Why would you assume someone else can create more money for you than you can yourself?
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According to salary.com, to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt, the median salary for Structural Engineer IV is about $104k htt
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How much do they charge their clients for your level of experience? You should get at least 25% of what they charge their client, and up to about 40% of their hourly rate.
In California...it should be even higher.
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IMHO, $27/hr is not worth the stress and liability of this profession.
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http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth/
The Press Release is dated May 24, 2011. However, "the analyses contained in this report are based on newly released data from the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS)."
The data is at least 2 years old, but salaries haven't changed much in those two years, have they? Mine hasn't.
Scroll down and select "Skip to a specific chapter (Where is my major?)", i.e. Engineering:
I'm not sure which category has Structural Engineers in it. Hopefully, it's in there and this helps.
Good luck,
Latexman
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Maybe it's the same place where Cass worked?
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I got $33 as a contract designer/drafter in 2005 in Santa Barbara in scientific instrumentation - so not remotely comparable to a structural PE but still, makes $27 look pretty bad.
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Good luck,
Latexman
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However, they are being ridiculously picky about who they'll give offers too and they're also low balling them based on the low end (20 or 25 percentile I believe) of the Radford salary survey.
(Sidebar, if all we're doing is reading the number off of some industry survey which may not truly address our somewhat niche industry and pricey location (Santa Barbara) then why do we need a full time compensation analyst (or something like that) in HR?)
Strangely enough, not too many takers, but lots of wasted time on interviews with half a dozen people each for 1/2 hour or so.
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So, the outcome is that we negotitated the salary and agreed to $32/hr. The benefits are also above par, in that medical premiums are paid for the whole family. I can be happy with this for now.
The 50 mile commutes, however...
Cheers!
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I have my own business and it is harder to start out in this environment on your own. Especially since others are so willing to take peanuts for jobs with high risk.
I am sure it's similar in the construction field, but my friend was applying for architecture jobs, and he would call back and the HR department said they got swamped with over 5000 applications. He kept getting that line. Lowballing everything sounds about right in this Super Depression.
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Los Angeles Civil and Structural Engineering
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Dan - Owner

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