2010 EE Times Global Salary and Opinion Survey

The average base salary among the North American engineers surveyed totaled just over $100,000; annual compensation, including bonuses and overtime pay, averaged $107,300, according to our findings. North American engineers also reported the highest job satisfaction (64 percent) among the respondents.In China and India (where base salaries for engineers in most cases remain far lower than in the other surveyed regions), bonus figures for Chinese engineers tracked those in North America and Europe, but India failed to keep pace. Only more experienced Indian engineers reported a greater percentage of bonus payments during the past year.
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