Average pay raise after PE

I know there are threads asking about how to get a raise after getting your PE, but this is a little different. I am trying to find some type of documented evidence that, on average, someone completing their PE gets a X-Y% raise. Another option would be something showing the average salary for a PE vs a non-PE. Does anyone know of a document such as this?

The reason I ask is because my employer would like to set up a standardize raise for incoming employees that complete their PE while working. In general, the PE is not a requirement for the job, but they would like to encourage more people to complete the license to show a higher commitment to safety and ethics.

ASME's 2012 salary survey has average salary for PE vs non-PE I believe. I don't think it's presented in a linear fashion so you may have to do some reading through the document.

As for documented evidence for average raises after getting your PE I haven't seen any reliable sources and frankly I would be very surprised, and skeptical, if I found one.

I got an 11% raise. 26.50 before to 29.00

lundy said:

I got an 11% raise. 26.50 before to 29.00

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that is like $60k...I saw the NSPE average starting salary survey for a lot engineering..man that is low

iwire said:

lundy said:

I got an 11% raise. 26.50 before to 29.00

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that is like $60k...I saw the NSPE average starting salary survey for a lot engineering..man that is low

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People work in different industries and different locations, and salary is not the same across the board. I have 8 years of experience and my PE license and I only make $65k, but I like my job, that's a decent wage in a low COL area, and it's typical for my type of work and area. You live in a high COL area and work in one of the more highly paid disciplines...good for you.

CU07 said:

iwire said:

lundy said:

I got an 11% raise. 26.50 before to 29.00

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that is like $60k...I saw the NSPE average starting salary survey for a lot engineering..man that is low

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People work in different industries and different locations, and salary is not the same across the board. I have 8 years of experience and my PE license and I only make $65k, but I like my job, that's a decent wage in a low COL area, and it's typical for my type of work and area. You live in a high COL area and work in one of the more highly paid disciplines...good for you.

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I live in Portland, OR so the COL is pretty high/inflated at the time. I do get paid time and a half and usually work 5 hours of OT so that's another $11,300 or so. But I think I could do better. Though I don't know if I would have to work more OT and therefore make less per hour.

I'm totally guessing here but it seems a 5% raise would be reasonable. I think my last company gave a $500 spot bonus and a raise.

My company reimbursed for exam, registration, hotel, gas, and parking for a passing score only. Believe it or not, this ended up being over $800. Nice to get that money back.

They also agreed to pay for a review course (1 time only - and service obligation for 1 year).

They also gave me a 5% raise.

Kovz said:

My company reimbursed for exam, registration, hotel, gas, and parking for a passing score only. Believe it or not, this ended up being over $800. Nice to get that money back.

They also agreed to pay for a review course (1 time only - and service obligation for 1 year).

They also gave me a 5% raise.

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Not too shabby! They reimbursed me the test fees, I believe $90 application and $210 or so for the test. I bought all my books and paid $450 for the Portland State University review course (which in hindsight didn't really help much), my hotel and gas. Now just to sell all my books back on Amazon to hopefully get around $800 for them.

LWhitson2 said:

I know there are threads asking about how to get a raise after getting your PE, but this is a little different. I am trying to find some type of documented evidence that, on average, someone completing their PE gets a X-Y% raise. Another option would be something showing the average salary for a PE vs a non-PE. Does anyone know of a document such as this?

The reason I ask is because my employer would like to set up a standardize raise for incoming employees that complete their PE while working. In general, the PE is not a requirement for the job, but they would like to encourage more people to complete the license to show a higher commitment to safety and ethics.

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I know within Shell (note: NOT my employer) there's a push to the point where promotions dont happen unless you have a PE. They've basically made it a requirement in their Wells group IIRC.

I really think it depends how you leverage it. Either you hand out a bonus upon successful completion of the PE requirements (i.e. passing the exam) and/or you start incentivizing rates once you have a PE.

If I was doing it, I wouldnt cover exam material or test fees, BUT I'd certainly kick back $2k for passing it assuming that "junior engineer" had been with the company a year beforehand (so that folks arent just flying in and collecting cash), along with a pay raise of 5-10%.

So the kid making 100k would get a golden handshake of 2k for passing it, then a salary bump of 5-10k.

I tried pulling the AIChE salary survey but the links are broken, so I'll try later.

FWIW I got sweet FA, other than a fist bump.

anyhow...when i passed my PE, my company gave me a immediate $2/hr raise the following week and then during review another 5%

CU07 said:

iwire said:

lundy said:

I got an 11% raise. 26.50 before to 29.00

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that is like $60k...I saw the NSPE average starting salary survey for a lot engineering..man that is low

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People work in different industries and different locations, and salary is not the same across the board. I have 8 years of experience and my PE license and I only make $65k, but I like my job, that's a decent wage in a low COL area, and it's typical for my type of work and area. You live in a high COL area and work in one of the more highly paid disciplines...good for you.

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Ya sometimes if you like your job that's matter which is good. After all it's a just a job..

COL? I know by comparison Oregon to where I am, DC NoVA area it's about 25-30% more at least from what my i found online. I am thinking about moving to Oregon in near future. We have a big group there

When I passed I got a $3.50/hr raise (~7,500/yr) which worked out to approximately 12%. They also paid for my review course and board registration fee and will pay for me to get reciprocity in other jurisdictions.

I received a 9.3% annual raise and a promotion to the next level Engineer title which includes a better annual bonus structure. My exam fees were paid for by my employer, but I did have to foot the ~$1,000 bill for SoPE.

I only got about 3%, but being I have 20 years on the job, I'm kinda at the high end anyway.

I need to leave to get the really big bump. 20 years and a license should get about $105K in my area, and I'm a few annual raises off of that right now.

My raise works out to be around an extra $500/month before taxes

Sounds abysmal.

Back when I passed in 2013, my employer gave me a raise of 1%. To me, that was a message. I had been with the company over 6 years. I started looking and left the company for 25% raise.

It could be worse, I took a pay cut when I passed. I was converted from hourly to salary. No more OT, and a crappy bonus that supposedly would make up the difference. I changed jobs the following year.

khadijah said:

Back when I passed in 2013, my employer gave me a raise of 1%. To me, that was a message. I had been with the company over 6 years. I started looking and left the company for 25% raise.

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That's about the same as what happened to me, although I did get a $1K bonus to help pay for the books, registration fees, etc. During review time, I got another $1K bonus and the standard 3% raise. I left for another company and got a 20% raise.