As usual it's hard to know what one ought to be getting paid. Rather than getting involved with recruitment consultants, I thought I'd try a post here. What would be a typical UK salary for the following person (yep, me):
->PhD in experimental physics (superconductivity) from Cambridge ->1 years experience in electronic design, DSP programming (c and a tiny bit of assembly on TI DSP chips), embedded RTOS and sundry other things (embedded FORTH code, some visual basic data analysis, using unix tools and c/c++) applied to electric vehicle technology (in particular state of the art traction motor controller design and development). ->Job not based in the expensive SE.
Any numbers off the top of your head would be of interest,
I do not like average salary's figures as they can make a job that you enjoyed suddenly awful. That I deserve more feeling when you find out you are not getting the average salary or above. Even worst when you find out you colleages are earning more!!!. In my view everything is relative if your not being paid enough then, is your spending too high? Are you balancing the enjoyment of the job and area you work in, against your earnings :-)
So to turn it around what level of job satisfaction do you want and what level of salary do you feel you deserve for the work you do :-)
Finally, I am sorry but I do not have a clue about the average salary levels in engineering at the moment. Try the IEE salary survey. I know people earning 14K to 120K, some deserve it others do not but thats life.
Please do not mention footballers, accountants or solicitors etc as there are always exceptions to the rules. Although with such mundane work and constant self justification maybe they deserve it.
Remember all you high paid people out there that there is a limit to what the UK PLC can afford.
