What to do

Cooter69
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:17:18 +0000

Thank you for the response! See I knew these salaries did exist with no experience in my location!

Some background on the firm, it has been in business for 20 years(mainly because of connections) and has five PE engineers. Yet, the owner and manager do not do much besides make proposals and watch after others. The firm on average makes $3-5million a year and offers one and a half week paid vacation, you pay for benefits. We have two engineer’s that makes $50k a year and one has 15 year experience the other 5 years, yet they are not the brightest. I am figuring/thinking the third engineer makes roughly $60k a year as he has his head on his shoulders and knows what he is talking about. The manager engineer I want to say makes maybe $70-80k a year, yet has been with the company since the start. It is not a laid back company, they always get 40 hours when we are slow and when we get busy they work 50 hours or more. Plus, the firm seems to wait until the last minute to do things. They tackle one or two large projects a year as in a park or building a new school, mostly residential work and improvements.

This company I feels takes advantage of you, as they had/have the highest billing rates for a few years and the lowest pay in our field. Other inspectors are making $5 more per hour. I think and feel after looking around I possibly will be able to find a firm with making $70k a year if not more.

After looking on craigslist seems like other firms are starting out at $70-90k with minimum three year experience. I will send them my resume and see what they say.

More comments, suggestions, and helpful insight is welcome!