In the current job market, computer hardware engineer gets higher salary, they get really pleasant environment for work. Actually they work with the physical components of a computer system; the components are the monitors, microchips, printers, and mother boards, hard disks, when the computer system failures they are summoned by the company and they perform upon those things and get it repaired soon which ultimately helps to work again. A computer hardware engineer gets an average salary $69,426 in the USA per year, experience and skills both matter for higher salary in the field. It is very common in practice that most of the people who work in this field, shift to other position after serving here for 20 years. The salary of a hardware computer engineer is 126% more comparing to the average salary of the citizens of USA, it is evidently one of the highest paying field, particularly this computer hardware engineering, makes a great linkage with the robotics, electronics engineering, circuit boards, and chips, the hardware engineer’s salary varies, their salary average is $102,480 annually.
Salary Determining Factors
Hardware engineers earn different pay package in different places, there are some factors which determine their salary structure, and those are location, experience, education, performance and the type of employee. In some states like NY, silicon Alley or San Francisco, where the engineers get higher payment. The experience is an important factor, by getting experience when an hardware engineer comes to a big farm definitely he gets some advantages, for education is concerned, when a hardware engineer gets his masters’ degree in computer engineering or bachelor’s degree , he definitely is entitled for large payment, but with out degree an engineer can not hope as much payment which the other gets, for this one should get admission into any institute, like Massachusetts institute of technology, Carnegie Mellon University, or University of California Berkeley, the employers also vital role in pay structure, as Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Apple provide higher salaries than the other companies as per the survey in 2012.
The Job Status in the Market
Overall in the market there are 67,400 jobs specified for the computer hardware engineer, out of them 28% are working in computer and IT sectors, in which out of 9 every one engineer works in computer and office equipment manufacturing, many engineers are entitled in the communication sectors, 11% of the engineers work in the consulting firms while below the 1% work in private consultancy organization.
Salary Ranges of Computer Hardware Engineer
In the USA job market we see that the working hardware engineer’ 50% get between $58,910 and $100,820, when the lowest 10% get below than $48,530. Those who get higher salary belong to 10%, get more than $123,480 as median annual salary in the market, as per the statistics, the hardware engineers who work in the field of computer and office equipment get $84,330 per year, in computer and IT, get $79,940 years, in the field of electronics and accessories earn$75,180, the salary employed in telecommunication sections is $72,790 per year.
The Skills of Computer Hardware Engineer
The computer hardware engineers need to have some basic skills, they should have basic knowledge about compute, electronics, circuit board, processor, chips, electronic equipments, the application of software and programming, the power of research and analysis.
Job Outlook
As per the statistics, of the job trend in USA, it is expected that the professional growth rate will be higher by the year of 2015, which indicates that the growth rate is about 1.7% per year.