Average plant engineering salaries by years of plant engineering experience

By Plant Engineering Staff
01/01/2001



1999 Plant Engineering Salary Survey


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Top Plant
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February 2018
February 2018
2017 Product of the Year winners, retrofitting a press, IMTS and Hannover Messe preview, natural refrigerants, testing steam traps
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March 2018
March 2018
SCCR, 2018 Maintenance study, and VFDs in a washdown environment.
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Jan/Feb 2018
Jan/Feb 2018
Welding ergonomics, 2017 Salary Survey, and surge protection
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April 2018
April 2018
ROVs, rigs, and the real time; wellsite valve manifolds; AI on a chip; analytics use for pipelines
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February 2018
February 2018
Focus on power systems, process safety, electrical and power systems, edge computing in the oil & gas industry
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December 2017
December 2017
Product of the Year winners, Pattern recognition, Engineering analytics, Revitalize older pump installations
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April 2018
April 2018
Implementing a DCS, stepper motors, intelligent motion control, remote monitoring of irrigation systems
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February 2018
February 2018
Setting internal automation standards
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December 2017
December 2017
PID controllers, Solar-powered SCADA, Using 80 GHz radar sensors
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Annual Salary Survey

Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.

There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.

But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.

Read more: 2015 Salary Survey

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Associate, Electrical Engineering; Wood Harbinger
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