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Salaries of Scientists and Engineers Remain Strong Overall
Washington, DC – Employers are projecting a 16% increase in college hiring in 2007-08, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit increases, and starting salaries are reflecting this positive growth, according to the 22nd edition of Salaries of Scientists, Engineers and Technicians: A Summary of Salary Surveys, released this month by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. Published biennially for more than four decades, Salaries of Scientists, Engineers and Technicians contains nearly 300 tables and charts from more than 80 public and private sources on starting and advanced salaries by field, experience level, degree level, and type of employer, with differentials by sex, race/ethnicity, type of job, geographic area, and more. Highlights from the 22nd edition include:
Starting Salaries:
salary offer in summer 2007 ($59,361). In contrast, psychology graduates received an average offer of just $31,631.
2007, with the most significant increases in political science (up 5.9%), chemical engineering (up 5.4%), civil engineering (up 5.4%) and computer engineering (up 4.8%).
industry reported the highest median starting salary ($90,000), while those accepting academic postdoctorate positions reported the lowest median starting salary ($48,000).
New assistant professors earned an average starting salary of $65,205 in 2006-07.
Salaries of Experienced Scientific and Technical Personnel:
$60,000, ranging from $54,000 for those whose highest degree was a bachelor’s, to $63,000 for those with a master’s, $77,000 for those with a doctorate, and $102,000 for those with a first professional degree.
than non-Hispanic whites ($61,000), and underrepresented minorities ($50,000).
($70,000) and computer science and mathematics ($68,000), and lowest in the life sciences ($42,000) and social and behavioral sciences ($45,000).
$98,000, followed closely by engineers ($97,300). Social scientists reported the lowest median salary ($73,000).
individuals who recently received their doctorate to a high of $150,000 for those 35 or more years since the doctorate.
stagnant pay. In 2007, IT staffers can expect to earn a median base salary of $74,000, and $78,000 in total compensation. IT managers can expect to earn a median base salary of $97,000, and $105,000 in total compensation.
Salaries of Engineers:
$80,870, up just 0.1% from $80,790 in 2005. By major engineering discipline, median salaries were highest in 2006 in nuclear engineering ($92,015) and materials engineering ($91,063), and lowest in civil engineering ($72,795) and engineering science ($76,763).
12.6% from $92,150 two years earlier in 2005.
more years of experience to a low of $79,400 for those with less than two years of experience.
Faculty Salaries:
Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC) reported an average salary of $84,526, ranging from $108,589 for full professors to $44,157 for those at the instructor rank. The overall average salary for all engineering faculty was $100,200, and the average salary for computer and information sciences faculty was $99,485.
Average salaries of full-time faculty in the U.S. rose 3.8% between 2005-06 and 2006-07, according to the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). With annual inflation at 2.5%, this is the first “real” increase in average salary since 2003-04. Women faculty continue to make less on average than their male counterparts, earning $63,926 in 2006-07, just 80.7% of what men did ($79,259).
to report the highest median salary ($82,200), while psychologists reported the lowest ($64,000).
Salaries of Scientists, Engineers and Technicians: A Summary of Salary Surveys, 22nd Edition, October 2007, by Nathan E. Bell, Nicole M. Di Fabio and Lisa M. Frehill, 294 pp., is available in print format for $100 ($80 for CPST members) from the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 113, Washington, DC 20005, Tel: (202) 326-7080, Fax: (202) 842-1603, http://www.cpst.org. The publication is also available in PDF format, and data tables from the publication may be downloaded from CPST’s Science, Engineering and Technology Human Resources Database, online at http://www.cpst.org.
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About CPST: The Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), founded in 1953 as the Scientific Manpower Commission, is a nonprofit organization whose membership includes leading professional scientific societies, corporations, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and individuals concerned with the education and employment of scientists and engineers. CPST specializes in the collection, analysis and dissemination of reliable information about the human resources of the United States in the fields of science, engineering and technology. For more information, visit http://www.cpst.org.