Professionally registered engineers report higher earnings

Lee,

you're right, but there is lots of evidence to show that employers are regularly simply selecting C.Eng as the criterion, often set by HR departments who dummy understand the differences, where I.Eng world be perfectly adequate for the role.

In some cases, they might even be in danger of setting themselves up for a discrimination case as, if taken to an industrial tribunal in the UK, if they can't demonstrate a causal link between the requirements of the job and the selection criteria, that can be seen as unnecessary discrimination, and if there is a correlation between the levels of qualification and age, this would be a breach of one of the legally protected characteristics, age.

Potentially, it could also relate to the sociological issues that Roy B mentions, though that would be harder to establish objectively and is not, strictly speaking, a protected characteristic

Most of all, they are missing the opportunity to recruit perfectly good engineers, and to offer those engineers appropriate career opportunities. Furthermore, for those who are at C.Eng level, the role may feel very limiting.

I regularly approve the appointment of contractors engineers to engineering roles, and there are very few instances where the role requirements would not be met by I.Eng, yet non engineering recruiters continually stipulate C.Eng if they stipulate anything. Often they don't stipulate at all, because they find they simply can't fill the role if they stipulate C.Eng, or can't afford the rate a C.Eng will expect, and don't even contemplate I.Eng, so they give up, which means we end up with no benchmark at all, which makes my job difficult.

Lee,

you're right, but there is lots of evidence to show that employers are regularly simply selecting C.Eng as the criterion, often set by HR departments who dummy understand the differences, where I.Eng world be perfectly adequate for the role.

In some cases, they might even be in danger of setting themselves up for a discrimination case as, if taken to an industrial tribunal in the UK, if they can't demonstrate a causal link between the requirements of the job and the selection criteria, that can be seen as unnecessary discrimination, and if there is a correlation between the levels of qualification and age, this would be a breach of one of the legally protected characteristics, age.

Potentially, it could also relate to the sociological issues that Roy B mentions, though that would be harder to establish objectively and is not, strictly speaking, a protected characteristic

Most of all, they are missing the opportunity to recruit perfectly good engineers, and to offer those engineers appropriate career opportunities. Furthermore, for those who are at C.Eng level, the role may feel very limiting.

I regularly approve the appointment of contractors engineers to engineering roles, and there are very few instances where the role requirements would not be met by I.Eng, yet non engineering recruiters continually stipulate C.Eng if they stipulate anything. Often they don't stipulate at all, because they find they simply can't fill the role if they stipulate C.Eng, or can't afford the rate a C.Eng will expect, and don't even contemplate I.Eng, so they give up, which means we end up with no benchmark at all, which makes my job difficult.