Outsourcing: The Cause of Lower Salaries for US Engineers?
It is no secret that outsourcing "some" (take note of the word, some) engineering tasks are being outsourced to other countries because of the universal reason of cost-cutting. This brings us to the speculation that outsourcing might be the culprit why the salaries of engineers from the US is going down.
The issue also grew rapidly with the news given by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). According to NAE, as different logistical barriers to performance of engineering work at remote locations continue to erode, the global pool of trained engineers is growing. This news just show that U.S. engineers are currently competing with engineers from other countries whose salaries are 40%-80% lower than their current ones.
Many US engineers agree that outsourcing contributes with the lowering of their compensation. Survey done by Electronic Design shows a 40% rate of engineers agreeing with this speculation. Aside from that, US engineers predict that the factory situation which happened before could also happen to the Engineering industry.
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No kidding. I’m just about infinitely fascinated by the way in which schools that nobody had ever heard of before a few executives wanted to do layoffs at home suddenly became “the finest engineering / mathematics/ science schools in the world”, and few people seemed to notice anything odd about this.
I can understand why the greedy few would try to spin the facts to their own benefit. What I can’t understand is why so many others let themselves be taken in by that spin.
Comment by Joseph Dunphy on August 18, 2007 1:55 pm