Welcome to Evaluation Engineering’s 2019 Jobs Report. Up until this year, we branded this report as the results of our annual “Salary Survey”. But when revisiting all that our survey covers, it’s far more than salary information—encompassing many factors that go into our readers’ job function and, compensation, and overall job satisfaction. That’s why we’ve decided to rebrand this feature as EE’s Jobs Report going forward, based on the results of the aforementioned survey that was open from early May through June.
Besides the name change, another big difference this year is that, for the first time, we have divided the survey results based on four job titles—Engineer, Manager, C-Level Executive, and Other/Retired/Scientific/Academia. Whereas previous years’ reports pooled the results of all questions with all respondents, the vast majority of this year’s survey results will compare engineers only against other engineers, managers only against other managers, and so on. Doing so has resulted in data that we think is much more valuable to our readers, rather than—for example—averaging the salary of a small company engineer against that of a large company CEO.