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Median Income of Electrotechnology, IT Professionals Rises to Nearly $120,000

Salary Calculator Available to Members and HR Professionals
IEEE members who completed the 2011 salary survey are entitled to five free uses of the IEEE-USA Salary Calculator (https://ieeeusa.gallup.com). This online tool helps members benchmark their salary and benefits against other professionals in their job specialty, and in areas such as age, years in the profession, and geographic location. Members who would like more uses can purchase additional five-use packages of the salary calculator. This is a member-only benefit. Members and human-resources professionals can also purchase an unlimited annual subscription to the IEEE-USA Salary Service (https://ieeeusa.gallup.com). This provides companies access to the IEEE-USA Salary Calculator so they can set attractive compensation packages to recruit and retain electrotechnology and IT professionals. The IEEE-USA Salary & Benefits Survey eReports (2009-2012) are included. The IEEE-USA Salary Service combines the power of a large number of respondents with online relational databases, the ability to search on many variables, and sophisticated regression analysis. The IEEE-USA Salary & Benefits Survey, 2012 Edition, is the 25th compensation survey IEEE-USA has conducted since 1972.

he median income for electrotechnology and informationtechnology professionals continued to rise in 2011, but the increase was less than half what it was in 2010, according to the latest IEEE-USA Salary & Benefits Survey. Median incomes from primary sources salary, commissions, bonuses, and net self-employment income -- for US IEEE members working full time in their primary area of technical competence (job specialty) rose from $118,000 in the 2010 tax year to $119,950 in 2011, a 1.7% increase. The rise from 2009 ($113,500) to 2010 was 3.96%. The results were based on responses from 10,235 people who reported working full time in their job specialty. Technology professionals employed in communications technology once again enjoyed the highest median earnings ($135,087), followed by circuits and devices ($129,000), and signals and applications ($127,000). The lowest median incomes were recorded by those in energy and power engineering ($107,820), industrial applications ($110,000), and systems and control ($112,000).

IEEE-USA Mini-Golf Hole Wins Best Design Award

IEEE-USA chose to participate to help raise public awareness of engineering. A nearby description of the hole told museum visitors how its name called to mind binary code, the phenomenon that all computer functions are governed by ones and zeroes. A QR code on the structure took players to http:// www.ieeeusa.org/golf/, where they could find out more about engineering careers and schools, and how engineers create solutions to challenges we all face. A jury of four was asked to rate each hole on a scale of 1 to 5 in three categories: design, fun factor, and playability. Canal Park, designed, built and sponsored by STUDIOS Architecture, OLIN, 3Form, Alliance Lighting, and Interface, won the Best in Show award, having received the highest overall score. Confluence, designed, built, and sponsored by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, won the Peoples Choice award. This was based on players displaying their fondness for a specific hole through donations in the exhibitions last gallery.

EEE-USAs miniature golf hole was honored for Best Design at the National Building Museum. Hole in 1s and 0s, part of the museums 12-hole mini-golf course, was created by GrizForm Design Architects of Washington, and built by Potomac Construction Services of Bethesda, MD. It was designed to represent the inside of a mobile device, such as a smart phone or tablet computer. IEEE-USA President-Elect Marc Apter accepted the award from Chase Rynd, National Building Museum executive director, in a ceremony at the museum. Rynd said the mini golf exhibition was a far greater success than he and museum staff anticipated. More than 27,000 people played a round from the day it opened on July 4, 2012, to its closing. A new course will be open at the museum next Memorial Day through Labor Day. FOX 5 coverage of Hole in 1s and 0s is available at http://www.myfoxdc.com/video?clipI d=7506732&autoStart=true. (The IEEE-USA portion of begins at the 2:45 mark). A feature story on the hole is available at http:// www.todaysengineer.org/2012/Aug/mini-golf.asp.

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 5, October 2012

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