Engineering Salaries Going Up!

Just read an article in Civil Engineering magazine that despite the recession, the salaries of engineers continue to go up year by year. The survey found that between April 2008 to April 2009 the median base salary of professional engineers rose almost 10%, from $85,000 to $92,000 annually. That's great news for me! Even better, my own field of structural engineering actually saw base salaries go up 12%! This is great news and shows that America is starting to finally see professional engineers for what they are--valuable assets to the safety and civility of society. Without engineers, you wouldn't even have a computer to read my blog. Although I still have to wait another 3 years for my own license in 2012 (right when the world ends), I'm glad that reports are finally coming out which make me feel more comfortable about choosing the right major. So now, not only do I love my job, but I'll be quite well off in doing it.....and will build my billion-dollar dream house in just a few short decades.

I also added some more GOOGLEJUICE (as Jeff Jarvis calls it) to my name. I now have a Google profile (which oddly enough doesn't even show up when you search for me, go figure) as well as a claimID account. ClaimID is a cool way to collaborate your digital self and put all the links into one simple site. My new claimID is www.claimid.com/troybishop and my new Google profile is http://www.google.com/profiles/troy.engexp. I even collected my sweet widget page at http://www.engexp.com/exos/widgets.cfm and a couple more profile pages at http://www.engexp.com/employee.cfm?employee_id=51 , http://www.linkedin.com/in/troysbishop. (Sorry about all the links, but I was told this would increase my exposure!)

My claimID

Information courtesy of CE magazine www.pubs.asce.org