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Engineering industry salary information

Sun, 2006-09-03 03:18 — tex

Teachers, key contacts, parents and students often request material to encourage students to pursue technical careers. These pages provide material on salaries, industry employment trends and educational requirements to be used to encourage students to keep in math and science courses and choose technical careers.

  • The EWEEK site has a salary survey from the National Society of Professional Engineers, http://www.eweek.org/2002/media/salarysurvey.shtml. Engineering salary growth continues to outpace inflation.
  • Here's some information on starting salaries for engineers nationwide from a variety of sources http://www.graduatingengineer.com/interview/salaries.html
  • The Society of Women Engineers has a lot of graphs and statistics about women in the field at
    http://www.swe.org/SWE/ProgDev/stat/stathome.html.
  • The website http://www.tracer2.com has a lot of Texas salary information:

    Architecture and Engineering Occupations working in Texas Statewide can expect to earn a median cash salary of $62,987 or $30.28 per hour. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate--50 percent of workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more.

    Half of the people in this job earn between $43,774 ($21.05 per hour) and $87,668 ($42.15 per hour) (i.e., between the 25th and 75th percentiles). An entry level worker can expect to earn $35,983 ($17.30 per hour) while an experienced worker can expect to earn $83,609 ($40.20 per hour)