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I just "found" some data on my companies salary distribution. We're a midsize aerospace company, primarily located in the L.A. area. The staff is about 2/3 to 3/4 advanced degrees in aerospace, EE physics, math etc.

I'm being deliberatly vague here, but it may shed some light on some questions you hear around here occasionally on "topping out" etc. The data is only for my grade which is about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way up the scale. I have about 11 years of experience post-college. It's a little unclear if time spent obtaining advanced degrees counts as "experience" on this chart.

The data starts at 12 years of experience. The median of the distribution increases pretty linearly at about 1%/year up to about 30 years of experience. This is the current distribution, not the expected salary curve for an individual career. Typical raise pools are around 4%.in my experience. The curve levels out around 35 years of experience. Again, this is just for one position level: advancement = more cash.

Median @ 12 years is between $105K/yr and $125K/yr +- 15% bound the distribution pretty well. The median levels out between $135K and $155K

Advanced degrees seem to matter - definitely more BS degrees below the curve then above

 
I think I just applied for 6 different positions at your L.A. based aerospace company. 🙂

How do you like it there? Enjoyable work?
 
Originally posted by: misle
I think I just applied for 6 different positions at your L.A. based aerospace company. 🙂
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To bad you didn't tell me earlier. I would have split the refferal bonus with you 😉 Although how you think you know the company from that information I don't know.

How do you like it there? Enjoyable work?
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Yep - it's a good company. Probably a few notches down on the beauracracy scale from other places I've worked which is good. Lots of diverse & interesting opportunities.
 
Originally posted by: edro
That is definitely LA... No engineer, management or not will get that in the midwest.
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There's certainly some of that. I'm in Colorado Springs and I'm down near that median - 15% line. But still on the chart 😀 Not that Colorado Springs is midwest, but it's not nearly the cost of living of L.A.
 
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