<p>@Data10, payscale base on 20 year history, things might have been changing till toward CS in the last 5 years. How many apps do you know that are running on smartphones? tons, things that we didn’t have 10 years ago, let alone 20 years.
And how many got EE degree but actually perform CS jobs, like in my own family, 2 EE graduate and went to CS like job in the beginning, there was no EE jobs. I myself graduated with an EE and got a job doing EE/CE in the first 10 years and the rest of the time I’ve been doing CS related jobs. My husband has an EE and he is been doing EE job for about 20 years, then patent job for 10 years and then system engineering. So I think payscale survey may not take into account of such change and still report the salary as EE.
So when I refer to EE, I mean the traditional EE, like power, control systems, digital signal processing, etc…</p>