[quote=markmax33][quote=AN][quote=markmax33][quote=markmax33][quote=AN][quote=markmax33]A family with a single income engineer could raise 2 children in the 1950s and them to college.
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They can do it in 2011 as well. Many of my coworkers’ wives are stay at home moms.[/quote]
The median engineer in San Diego making $80k per year is not raising 2 kids, paying a mortgage and paying for his kids college. An Engineer way out of the statistical norm making $150k might be able to BARELY scrape by. Stop lying to yourself.[/quote]
Engineers make $75k as the median:
http://www.mtu.edu/engineering/outreach/welcome/salary/%5B/quote%5D
You make more than that median after 3-4 years of experience in my industry. However, to get to $150k, you need to be a director level. You don’t need to be a director to live on single income. Many people I know who are living on single income are not directors. While you’re talking about theoretical, I’m talking about real people who are doing well on single income.[/quote]
$150k is for an Engineer is extremely high and in the top 5%. Thank you proving my point. I am an Engineer, I manage Engineers and I hire Engineers. $150 is not 3-4 years of experience in Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Fire Protection, Electrical, etc. That’s what the majority of Engineers are in this country.[/quote]
But that same majority of engineers in this country live in much cheaper housing markets where they can live on 1 wage. Around here where prices are higher the engineers are more skewed to the higher wage fields of telecom and software.
