PE Salaries?? 2

[structchick]

What are the new PE's getting now? I passed last April and was wondering what everyone is getting? I got an 8% raise when I passed. I think others are doing much better.

 

[IRstuff]

A good manager will still make something happen. The 3-4% is the "pool" amount, i.e., the aggregate raise for the department. This can still provide lots of leeway.

TTFN

 

[buzzp]

IRstuff,
Sometimes it provides leeway. Based only on my one experience as a manager, the percentage increase for each employee was given to me. The next year I had a little leeway but certainly not more than 1-2% off from the standard 3%.

 

[AndrewTX]

To the question of what kind of a raise did you get when you received your PE license, for me the answer is zero. All I have ever received, in terms of extra money for the PE, is that my company will cover the cost of the yearly license fee.

I'm in an industry (oil and gas) that supposedly pushes as many of its engieers as possible to get the PE license and I've not heard any of my colleagues mention raises just for getting the license.


To the question of getting more than the standard 3% raise, I agree that the best way is to leave your job for a new company. I've done that three times and each time the raise was good, at least 8% and a couple times over 10%.

With one of my previous companies I was averaging about 6% for my annual raise. Of course, I now work for a company that hasn't seen fit to provide any kind of raise for 3 years.

 

[sms]

I was working for a consulting firm when I got my PE, and it was a requirement for promotion to get the PE. As a result I got promoted at the same time, resulting in a 12% raise...

 

[HgTX]

New thread (with a slightly different slant) on this same subject started here:
thread507-108193

Hg

 

[vanscoyoc]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but what about striking out on your own with that PE? Take that license, get incorporated and try to land some work of your own.

 

[whyun]

As much as there are many people who are competent enough to enter the consulting arena, good number of them are not willing to risk their license, secure income, health insurance and other benefits they enjoy being "employed".

Being on one's own brings about freedom, more $/hour and flexibility in whom they choose as their clients, but work load isn't always steady... Not to mension working 24/7 and in your sleep too.