@MasterLillyclaw Fortunately as for now, no. CS salary is luckily nowhere near the poor salaries of the other sciences. But I’m just laying out the possibilities… cause no one knows the future
Anyways, I was thinking of embedded software engineering when I talked about computer engineering. The purely hardware side of computer engineering like DrGoogle said is not doing so well (and judging by bls.gov, it seems that such will continue being the case -check out also electrical engineering in bls if you don’t believe me-
In fact, as much as I hate to admit, pretty much all fields (even engineering) except certain medical fields are not having the best days in this economy.
I want to inform you, that there are countries in which minimum wage is much less for a similarly qualified engineer. For instance, South Korea, a first world country has a minimum wage of almost half of USA. If I was the head of a company, I would send my company there. Now, this forgets the fact that there are even “cheaper” countries in the world in which the minimum wage is less than a dollar. Not every engineer needs to have a broad education, he/she just needs to know enough to create products. Add in the fact that there are extremely talented engineers all around the world and wallah, offshoring
That said, the matter with H1 visas are not something to ignore. As much as I hate to admit, in most top CS universities, an OVERwhelming majority (feels more like 9 out of 10) are either asian-americans (which thankfully are americans) or internationals. The problem is, out of the two, it feels that the more stand on the latter side which means even in our domestic universities, some of the most talented CS individuals are foreigners.
Fortunately for now, I believe the average job offers for CS majors in competitive universities are around 2-4, which is extremely good in this economy.
I just think that such might not be the case once the hype crashes temporarily (like the dotcom bubble).
That said, hey, I’m a CS & Math person. I have no clue how the other fields work.They say the grass is always greener on the other side. And I attend a university in which an overwhelming majority of engineers go to Wallstreet so…