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You're using a real wages figure for the entire workforce, not engineers. Engineering salaries are extremely healthy, while the real minimum wage has also falle
by allworknoplay 11y ago
You're using a real wages figure for the entire workforce, not engineers. Engineering salaries are extremely healthy, while the real minimum wage has also fallen. Unless you have data on inflation adjusted engineering wages, this is a totally misleading/inaccurate argument.
- ZoeZoeBee 11y agoNot at all, as the entire work force has felt the effect of immigrants tripling as a percentage of the population, so to will Engineers with the increase of immigrants via H1-B visas
- allworknoplay 11y agoDid you read/understand my comment? I didn't say you're abjectly wrong, I just asked for actual data about engineering wages. We know average real wages have slipped, but we also know the real minimum wage has fallen a lot, and also that our GINI coefficient is up. In the absence of better data, the logical supposition here is that real incomes amongst lower-income employees have fallen more than amongst higher income employees. Again: Unless you have data on inflation adjusted engineering wages, this is a totally misleading/inaccurate argument.