U.S. Engineering Salaries Jump; Smartphone Developers Win Big

IEEE Spectrum  September 11, 2019
These are some of the highlights that stand out in the just-released IEEE-USA Salary & Benefits Survey – income gains weren’t evenly spread among engineers of all specialties, regions, race, gender, or age; Smartphone Developers and Machine Learning Engineers Win Big; engineers working in energy and power engineering, robotics and automation, and engineers in instrumentation and measurement, are at the lower end of the scale. The Salary “Gap” between men and women is more like a chasm, the overall difference in median income in 2018 was $19,000. Large racial disparities persist. Income varied significantly with geography, according to the survey. The Pacific region, as usual, had the highest median engineering salaries followed by New England…read more.