Pay Rates

One of my bosses has asked me to find out the pay rates for SolidWorks
Designers. What I need to know is what should pay rate be for somebody who
has 13 years experience in AutoCAD (but hasn's used it in quite a while) and
is a beginner with SolidWorks.

I also need to know the future potential for pay as experience increases.
For this, I would appreciate knowing what some of you get paid, and your
number of years experience. Please adjust your payrates to be what a person
would earn while working for a company.

 

Search SolidWorks Salary Survey on google and they will point you to a
few surveys.


KMaren

 

I searched that, and everyting that I have found only gives me an average
salary, or else a salary based on hours worked per week with solidworks.

 

Start around $30k and peak around $50k a year. That would = $15 to $25
per hour. That is why most employers list annual salaries - the hourly
rate just looks so sad... <g> That said, contract workers make way
more - usually.

 

Depends on where you are located also, but I would say that range is pretty
true DOE and education. ....designers/engineers are really underpaid sad to
say. I think it's only going to get worse with a lot of companies scabbing
the cad and engineering work to 3rd world countries....