This post has nothing to do with the YLYL topic and I actually don't get how two new topics about this (after the discussion over its existence) have combined to become over, at this point, 500+ posts...it's just a thought I had related to statistics.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
IYour claim was that nurses are just as well compensated as engineers, which is patently false. I stand by my data which comes directly from the provincial government: the average engineer in Alberta makes significantly more than the average nurse. There's nothing controversial about that statement and I can't see why anyone would dispute that fact. I imagine most engineers would even agree that they're better paid than most nurses.
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I think it's important to clear details about what each statistic represents though.
The annual average salary stat is a bit confusing because it takes multiple employees and assumes they work the same hours. On the ALIS website, it lists both average salary and average wage. RNs have an average hourly wage of $42.60 and an average annual salary of $63,922.00 which works to about 1500 hours a year. If I pull the Electrical Engineer's stats (I honestly pulled this one at random. I hit E for Engineer and that was the first result), it has a comparable hourly wage ($46.63) but a much higher annual salary ($96,142) which suggests higher hours (~2060).
The use of hourly wage makes more sense to me as well because then we remove the idea that one profession, for whatever reason (and that's a topic beyond what I wanted to focus on in my post), works more or less hours than another. This kind of levels the field between part-time and full-time work as per how much one is paid based on the amount of work they do (assuming the amount of work done per hour is the same for both groups). And if we do, the numbers you're looking for are:
- Aerospace Engineer: $54.82
- Civil Engineer: $46.11
- Computer Engineer: $44.86
- Electrical Engineer: $46.63
- Petroleum Engineer: $52.41
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineer: ???
- Chemical Engineer: $55.54
- Geological Engineer: $49.86
- Average of "Engineers": $50.03±$4.33
- Registered Nurse: $42.60
You can do what you want with the numbers. I think they make more sense based on the situation though.