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[oceanview]

pay raises in the US are effectively 0%. and if you lose your job, be prepared to take a 30% salary cut, if you can even find a comparable new job, which is unlikely.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Dang. I need to finish college, apparently...

[radiohead]

Ok, I'll bite. To what do you attribute the lower pay for blacks? When I first looked at the stats, I thought it might be because there haven't been that many black engineers over the past 20 years or so (tho I've known a lot of black engin majors over the same time period). But Hispanics make more? I can't imagine there were many of them in engineering, either.

When my son was in undergrad in the mid/late 90s, he knew a lot of Vietnamese who were engineering - not because they wanted to be, in fact, many of them hated it. However, they were dutiful Asian children and their parents demanded that they major in a field that could get them a job.

Just curious, not looking to start an argument.

[Mr. Jeeves]

None of the salaries discussed in the article will allow one to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the San Francisco Bay Area.

More to the point, knowing how much financial professionals get paid around here, I would say that EE's are drastically underpaid, given the amount of education and effort needed to prepare for the profession.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don't know about you, but most of the EE's I work with aren't worth $89K.

[e_engineer]

BTTT, and thanks for posting this.

[TopQuark]

$59,800 in 1994 to a high of $89,100,

That's about 5.9% every year, way ahead of inflation.

[TopQuark]

Education pays They cannot reach that conclusion on the basis of salaries.

PhD, $112,115; MBA, $97,407; MSEE, $96,642; MSCS, $91,928; BSEE, $83,367; BSCS, $87,826; associate's degree, $65,703.

The premium for Ph.D. is about $5,500, or $165,000 in 30 years. However, if one completes that degree in 5 years, the holder of a Master's earns 96,000 * 5, a great deal more.

[DefCon]

O.K., I'll bite.
What is an EE?

[FreedomCalls]

Bump.