Engineers Working Harder for Their Paycheck

Editorgirl35 writes to tell us Design News has posted their annual engineering salary survey. While it does offer encouraging results with salaries up a bit from last year it also shows that engineers are, on the average, doing a lot more to earn that paycheck including supervisory and budgetary functions. From the article: "Kody Baker, a 28-year-old mechanical engineer agrees, "Yes, we are doing far more than just designing products," he says. He's a project manager, manufacturing engineer, product designer, R&D engineer, test engineer, CAD systems specialist, CAD instructor/mentor, and more, juggling many roles in his job as a mechanical application engineer at Honeywell."

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Average pay is far from real life

[jt2377]

"Engineers earned an average of $73,000 last year," if you can find a job that pay the "average" salary, half of people that i know get far less than that.

Re:Average pay is far from real life

[Mozk]

And half get paid far more? So it all evens out to the average, right? I do remember something like that in math.

Re:Average pay is far from real life

[Aceticon]

Actually if 1 person eats a whole chicken and 3 other persons eat no chicken at all then in average they each eat 1/4 of a chicken.

Not that it really maters for the chicken in question though.

The engineering singularity.

[twitter]

The limit of the trend is a single "engineer" responsible for all aspects of the business, a single person company, owned by millions of shareholders (IP owners) and one or two CEOs who extract all but $60,000/year of value. The BOFH replaced everyone in sales, accounting, customer relations with shell scripts where the functions could not be merged into the engineering position. The BOFH then disappeared in a cloud of keyboard clatters as one of his scripts replaced him. No one was able to tell what the CEO did, so they left him alone.

Re:Welcome to life

[Joe The Dragon]

and you have to deal with the TPS reports form all of the people under you

Re:Welcome to life

[tsajeff]

Don't forget about coming in on Saturday... Oh, and by the way, I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too...

Re:Engineers not the only ones...

[monoqlith]

we run up credit card debt at 20-30% interest (the mafia gives better rates).

Actually, the mafia has a tiered compounding interest rate for all of their loans..I've seen their policy. IIRC, the rate chart looks something like this:

1 week: Veiled threat to kill your family.
2 weeks: Tiretreads of a '76 Buick LeSabre or 82' Cadillac Deville over your arm
3 weeks: A lead pipe to the knee cap or lower back - your choice
4 weeks: Gunshot wound to your shoulder, courtesy of Bambino "the Stallion" Carmatsi
5 weeks: A free face stabbing

The chart I saw only has listing for the five weeks, but I hear they have long-term plans as well.

Hello William Shatner

[patio11]

You might have, thought you were clever, using Anonymous Coward, but your use of 15 commas, in a single paragraph, no less, gives the game away.