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Yes I understand there are differences in pay among locations and that you can’t compare Silicon Valley salaries to Texas salaries. But we are NOT doing that here. We are using national averages in order to compare apples to apples.</p>
<p>The first link you provided gives an average salary of $60k among all practitioners. The second link is where I pulled my figure from, which is a median $66,570 among all practitioners. The last link references salary.com with an average salary of $64,932 for all practitioners. All 3 figures are only slightly higher than the average starting salaries for engineers.</p>