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Salary scales in Electronic Engineering disciplines?

  • 19-12-2007 1:57pm
    #1
    Hitman Actual
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    Has anyone any information (or know where to find information) on the currently accepted salary scales in electronic engineering disciplines, e.g. IC design, layout, etc? I checked out the Sunday Business Post article on salaries last weekend, but as usual these areas were neglected (There was plenty of info on IT and Building-related engineering, but electronic disciplines fall outside the scope of those areas).

    So basically I'm looking for salary scales from, say graduate -> project/design engineer -> senior engineer, etc.


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  • #2
    jameshayes
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    have a look at http://www.irishjobs.ie/work_wise/salarysurveylist.aspx?ParentID=75&CID=160 they have scales for most roles


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    daveirl
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    Hitman Actual
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    Thanks for the replies lads. That's pretty much in line what I was thinking.

    daveirl, I agree that salaries are annoying low, considering that in most cases it is a highly skilled sector. It's a factor that definitely won't entice up-and-coming grads into the area.


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    copacetic
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    daveirl, I think you are being a bit pessimistic with those salaries? Although there isn't the competition for people there once was, I would have added 20% to the engineer and senior engineers salaries. Of course it does depend where you are based and if outside dublin there is much less competition for people of course. The thing I would say about these kind of salaries is that if you are good enough then you can forget averages etc and name your own pretty much.


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    daveirl
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  • #8
    copacetic
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    well i'd definitely think about changing companies at least! i'd have the exact opposite experience of the negotiating skills of engineers also..


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    BrandonBlock
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    Friend of mine graduated from elec engineering in DIT and got a graduate position in ESB, €33k starting. 2 years later and now he's on €45k.


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    copacetic
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    daveirl wrote: »
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    ah, didn't realise you were talking analog IC design, not very portable compared to digital design. So certainly outside of 7-8 years ago it can be affected by the lack of demand..


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  • #14
    copacetic
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    well outside of the biggest companies R&D is moving more and more to FPGAs rather than full custom, for digital at least. There is a reasonable amount of work for digital designers in Dublin. Certainly trying to find them is difficult. I should point out that I have recently moved away from R&D myself. Imo if you want to make good money, you need to move up to senior eng status, start running projects and team/section leading and then move into some type of management position. It is then easier to move into other industries and also insulates you a fair bit from skills outsourcing, SW design is easily outsourced, HW design not as easily but can be done, management is difficult to offshore, assuming the company has a strong Irish base and isn't going to leave altogether.


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