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Salaries edged up from 2010 and more engineers are feeling confident about a recovery. Engineers are still doing more with less and struggling to find work-life balance.

A proud father boasts to his colleagues about his successful offspring. They’re doing so well, he beams, that they now make more than the old man.

The average salary for an engineer was down slightly from 2008, but engineers are feeling more optimistic about keeping their jobs. Many are making sure they stay current or take on new skills to keep themselves marketable.

Despite the crummy economy, engineering salaries rose slightly last year. And as part of our annual salary survey, engineers who have struck it out on their own tell us how and why they did it.

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The MACHINE DESIGN Salary Survey shows how engineers are bringing the bacon home. Aside from general demographic information, it reveals insight into the ups and downs of engineering

Thanks to the Internet, engineers can quickly assess where their compensation ranks compared to others in their industry or geographical area