r/ChemicalEngineering • u/coguar99 • Dec 20 '23

Salary Update on ChemE Salary Report 2024

Hey everyone, first - thank you to everyone here who has already participated. As of this morning, I have 1,230 responses and my goal is at least 1,500 - so almost there. If you've already completed the data collection form, no need to do it again (the system will flag the entry as a duplicate anyway).

If you've not seen this or are unaware AND you're a chemical engineer, I need your help. I've been updating a salary report, specifically for USA-based Chemical Engineers, for the past 8 years. It started out humbly but has gotten better and better with more and more participants each year. I've had countless people tell me that they've used the data to get themselves more industry competitive offers or in salary negotiation situations. Last year and this year, I've spent the month of December collecting salary data from US-based ChemEs, then I compile and analyze the data and send out the report to anyone who sends me their data. I'm a real person, my LinkedIn URL is below. The form is located on my website and I list a number of commitments there (I won't sell your data, etc). What's in this for me is that hopefully you will remember me when you're a fancy manager or executive somewhere and partner with me to fill a few chemical engineering jobs. That's how I make my money. Anyway - if you've got questions, don't hesitate to message me.

TL;DR: Complete the chemical engineering salary survey to help yourself and your fellow colleagues. Data collection will close on December 31st.

Link to the salary survey: https://www.sunrecruiting.com/salary-survey/ Link to my LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamrkrueger/

Update 12/21: Blew past 1,500 - now at almost 1,700! Thank you ChemE Subreddit!

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u/Obey_Gibbs Dec 21 '23

How do you reduce bias in the groupset since inevitably higher income roles are more likely to fill the survey. Higher output engineers are also more likely to see this survey as well while lower output engineers likely never see this since they are not on LinkedIn or subscribed to r/chee? I know these are 2 questions my boss would ask if I tried using this data.

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u/coguar99 Dec 21 '23

Great question - I spread news about this through every avenue I have available to me. LinkedIn, Reddit (obvi), email, word-of-mouth, etc. I am fairly transparent with how many data points I have for each group and I also provide several percentile markers so that you have a good idea of the spread of the data. In other words, I'm not sure what else I can do outside of what I'm already doing in order to ensure that as many people as possible, from all levels, see this and participate in it. I'm certainly open to suggestions on this front.