45.3% outsourcing Mechanical Design... wow. I never would have thought it to be that high.
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45%? Hmm, I think I can see why, as I design parts for our Chinese partners while receiving quotes for our parts from our German and Korean suppliers and discuss the progress on a job in the UK with the engineers over there. I think it's called global trade.
Interesting that only 10% have changed jobs in the past ten years.
Also interesting that 50% of respondents were paid more than me. Yet I have 22 years of experience, and am very highly rated in our objective forced ranking system. So either USAn engineers are better than Australian ones (a lot better) or there is some disparity in cost effectiveness!
45%? Hmm, I think I can see why, as I design parts for our Chinese partners while receiving quotes for our parts from our German and Korean suppliers and discuss the progress on a job in the UK with the engineers over there. I think it's called global trade.
50% of respondents were paid more than me. Yet I have 22 years of experience, and am very highly rated in our somewhat objective company wide forced ranking system. So either USAn engineers are better than Australian ones (a lot better) or there is some disparity in cost effectiveness! I think that might explain part of your 45% as well.
Interesting that only 10% have changed jobs in the past ten years. Wow.
I posted this in a couple other threads, but it is relevant to this one especially> I received the following from Langer regarding their pay survey of ASME members. Based on this it appears that at least mechanical engineers that are members of the ASME are doing pretty well! Junior engineer has a median salary of $50000. That has got to be better than a cell phone salesman.....
This unique, 576-page publication reports the base salaries, other cash compensation, and total cash compensation of 8,963 members of ASME.
Nationwide, the median income of survey participants is $83,236.
The median income of some of the benchmark jobs investigated
were:
