2025 Salary Survey: AI, Education, and Careers

Last year’s Salary Survey delivered some eye-opening results. We’ve got a synopsis of them from three publications in our Design Engineering group: Electronic Design, Microwaves & RF, and Power & Motion.

William G. Wong

Cabe Atwell

David Maliniak

Sara Jensen

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May 15, 2026

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Our 2025 Salary & Career Survey was sent out to a wide variety of engineers and developers. It provided interesting results across the board as well as within focused areas, where engineers are working on designs from fluid mechanics to AI accelerators. The articles in this special report come from different EndeavorB2B publications.

Each article is definitely worth reading, with our editors offering perspectives on their area of focus as well as the more general engineering community. Likewise, there are many common areas of agreement, such as high job satisfaction and the specter of engineering shortages.

Furthermore, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is making an impact on engineering and programming jobs, but smart managers are working with their group and peers to improve overall performance rather than trying to replace workers.

Read the articles individually, or download the free eBook that collects them together (click link below).

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2025 Salary Survey eBook: AI, Education, and Careers

Download this eBook that brings results from our Salary Survey, which offers perspective on careers represented by different publications in our Design Engineering group.

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About the Author

William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.

Cabe Atwell

Technology Editor, Electronic Design

Cabe is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design.

Engineer, Machinist, Cartoonist, Maker, Writer. A graduate Electrical Engineer actively plying his expertise in the industry and at his company, Gunhead. When not designing/building, he creates a steady torrent of projects and content in the media world. Many of his projects and articles are online at element14 & SolidSmack, industry-focused work at EETimes & EDN, and offbeat articles at Make Magazine. Currently, you can find him hosting webinars and contributing to Electronic Design and Machine Design.

Cabe is an electrical engineer, design consultant and author with 25 years’ experience. His most recent book is “Essential 555 IC: Design, Configure, and Create Clever Circuits”

Cabe writes the Engineering on Friday blog on Electronic Design.

See Cabe's cartoons & comic strips here.

David Maliniak

MWRF Executive Editor

In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.

Sara Jensen

Technical Editor, Power & Motion

Sara Jensen is technical editor of Power & Motion, directing expanded coverage into the modern fluid power space, as well as mechatronic and smart technologies.

She has over 15 years of publishing experience, which includes working at her college newspaper as a copy editor and then an editor, as well as at a supply catalog company as a copy writer. Prior to Power & Motion she spent 11 years with a trade publication for engineers of heavy-duty equipment, the last 3 of which were as the editor and brand lead.

Over the course of her time in the B2B industry, Sara has gained an extensive knowledge of various heavy-duty equipment industries — including construction, agriculture, mining and on-road trucks —along with the systems and market trends which impact them. She looks forward to continuing to expand that knowledge to now include a deeper dive into fluid power and motion control technologies and the various markets in which they're utilized including heavy equipment and manufacturing.

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