Salary Initiatives

There is an ongoing concern in the Consulting Engineering community regarding our ability to attract the "best and the brightest minds" into one of the most challenging industries in Alberta.

As an industry, we must be able to offer salaries to graduates at a comparable level to those being offered by others. Similarly, we need the ability to attract and retain experienced staff by offering similar remuneration as is given in other industry and professional sectors and continue to keep them motivated and rewarded.

The following outlines some of the issues our industry must address:

1. Attracting graduates at current salary levels.
2. Staff moving to other industries at higher salaries.
3. Exposing staff to clients who hire them away at higher salaries.
4. Recent APEGA Value of Professional Services November, 2019 puts consulting engineering amongst the lowest remuneration level of industries surveyed.
5. CEA's salary survey confirms the erosion in our industries' salaries as compared to others.

In an effort to turn the situation around, the CEA Board of Directors embarked on an aggressive and very successful campaign in 2000 to raise of the salaries of engineers in the CE industry.

See the progress made since that time.

Progress Report 2019

 Compensation Survey   

www.wcbc.ca

The Consulting Engineers of Alberta has partnered with Western Compensation & Benefits Consultants to produce a comprehensive report on salaries, benefits and employment practices of Canadian consulting engineering firms.

For more information please go to: wwww.wcbc.ca/published-surveys/consulting-engineers