Technicians and Incorporated Engineers have sometimes found themselves being positioned a hierarchy, suggesting that they have a lower economic value than another category of registrant . This inaccurate suggestion of lesser value, deters many from engagement and may cause some measure of offence to those who do participate.
All the outputs from the recent UKSpec review seemed to reinforce a sense of hierarchy, and a weak attempt to make IEng more distinctive by lowering the competencies compared to CEng. There has been a gradual repositioning of IEng, over recent years, to a more para-professional level and this is reflected in the widening of the salary differential. If all the changes originally proposed by the UKSpec review had been implemented the result would have been a qualification aimed for individuals starting out in their career and with a salary more like
