If you took the doubling of productivity since 1975 and inflation adjusted the median income from then ($7750) you would get about $68,000. In practice wages ha

If you took the doubling of productivity since 1975 and inflation adjusted the median income from then ($7750) you would get about $68,000. In practice wages haven't risen against productivity and GDP so the real figure is $45,000. To make it look even worse, the GDP tripled but population only rose 50%, so if you adjusted wages against total economic growth instead of productivity median should be around $110,000. Median. So yes, $90k is pretty much peanuts for how much money an embedded engineer would be on average making for their employer.