Engineers Working Harder for Their Paycheck

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 23, 2006 @11:38AM from the more-fun-every-year dept.

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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Re:Engineers not the only ones... by kfg · 2006-07-23 12:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

. . .we run up credit card debt at 20-30% interest. . .

. . .on stuff that's obsolescent and 90% depreciated in a year or three, that is, assuming we didn't just outright piss it away on nothing at all (I'm going to Disneyland).

KFG