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FortWayne
2013 Jul 25, 2:32am
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. ~Ronald Reagan
You all know he was right when he described our government, that train is never late.
I think the biggest salary spikes are among wall street crooks like John Corzine, who else can run away with billions of ill gotten dollars and get presidential pardons. It's good to be friends with people in high places.
Salaries can reach as high as $200,000 to $350,000 for engineering professionals in senior, but not executive, managerial roles," said Dane Groeneveld, a director at engineering recruitment firm NES Global Talent.
that would be more than what many CEO/CFO make in most small/med companies.
The $200-350K is extremely over inflated even for large companies.
New Renter
2013 Jul 25, 4:45pm
Recruiters say
Um, url?
I talked to a recruiter just yesterday for a engineering staffing firm in SF. He told me quite the opposite, that its STILL a crappy market for scientists/engineers and the forecast is to be no better until at least next year.
This story reeks worse than Goran's office mate.
Rin
2013 Jul 25, 11:53pm
This is the essence of the Oil Patch boom/bust cycle.
During the late 70s, my dad & his colleagues were getting invites to places like Houston, offering to double their salaries to leave the New England/New York regions. Back then, northeast engineers [ Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, etc ] earned from $30-50K, whereas the Oil Patch would boost those avgs to $50-$80K for their sector. Of his friends, who'd ventured into the Lone Star state (remember 'Dallas' with J.R. Ewing), 80% lost their jobs in the mid-80s and then, were stuck paying a mortgage while traveling around the country for work, to paid it off w/o taking a huge loss.
The difference here is that RE is cheap in Houston and that many ppl in the Dakotas are living in an RV, so it's easier to simply bankroll the extra cash. I think ppl also don't sense the same level of continuous prosperity so perhaps, if there is a bust, it won't be as disastrous as earlier.
New Renter
2013 Jul 26, 12:20am
Clumping all engineers under whatever's in demand for the moment is almost as annoying as clumping all STEM employees under the same umbrella.
Hey, Chevron needs pipeline engineers - that must mean biologists are in demand for highly lucrative positions too!
Tenpoundbass
2013 Jul 26, 12:54am
Hey, Chevron needs pipeline engineers - that must mean biologists are in demand for highly lucrative positions too!
You bet, somebody has to study the environmental impact.
They might not me working for the same goal, objective or company for that matter, but they do become in demand.
Rin
2013 Jul 26, 4:28am
Hey, Chevron needs pipeline engineers - that must mean biologists are in demand for highly lucrative positions too!
You bet, somebody has to study the environmental impact.
They might not me working for the same goal, objective or company for that matter, but they do become in demand.
Huh? That's just gathering info for the EPA. Better yet, bury all the results .... "Fracking generates no fresh water contamination nor seismic changes to the environment because we say so!"
Plus, who cares if N Dakota gets polluted. No one lives there anyways.
I guess this means, the head hunters are upset because there's a niche of American workers still demanding a living wage. Time to beat this meme to death, so they can get $12 an hour Paki's to do the same job, and paint the prairie black with Oil.