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the data

By PraCHI PaTel-PreDD

Engineers Are Doing
Well by Doing Good

This rise in starting salaries would be even higher were
companies not able to get young talent from such places
as India, China, and romania. The U.S. Bureau of labor
Statistics projects that over the next decade, ee employment
will grow much more slowly than other engineering areas,
because of the job outflux to other countries.
The consumer electronics industry, telecommunications,
and aerospace and defense are sustaining the U.S. ee job
market. and companies are willing to pay larger premiums
for higher talent and education levels.
o

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alary offerS for new U.S. electrical engineering
grads over the past five years may not have increased as
much as they have for those majoring in other areas of
engineering, but demand is still strong. That should come as no
surprise, given that technologists are behind the scenes in solar
energy and search engines, cellphones and fuel cells, DNa
sequencing and Hollywood blockbusters.

U.S. Engineering Salaries
Computer science

Civil engineering

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

+16%

90

90

+13%

Systems

US $, thousands

Chemical engineering

EE Salaries,
BSEE vs. MSEE

+10%
+14%

80

Applications

+16%

80

+14%

US $, thousands

70

60

U.S. Starting Salaries for Bachelor's Degree Graduates
US $, thousands

+24%
+13%

+16%

50

+19%

50

2003

2008 2003

2008 2003

2008 2003

2008 2003

2008

2004

2006

2008

U.S. Salaries for EE Specialties

120

+11%

+2.9%

+11.3%

110

US $, thousands

BSEE
(first 5 years)

40

40

100

MSEE
(first 5 years)

60

+22%
60

70

+10.6%

+8.6%
Circuits
and devices

Signal and
applications

Communications
technologies

+10.8%
Computers

Electromagnetics
and radiation

+9.2%

90
Energy
and power
engineering

80

+7.2%

Industrial
applications

Systems
and control

70
2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

2004

2008

Sources: u. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; National Association of colleges and Employers; iEEE-uSA.

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