Salary Calculators 

Salary.com's Salary Wizard enables you to access their proprietary compensation database, which contains salary information on thousands of job titles. The Salary Wizard calculates salaries based on job title and geographic location.

Salary Surveys 

• Compensation in Mechanical Engineering
  Based on the responses of 9,000+ participants in a 2006 survey conducted by Abbott, Langer & Associates, Inc., this title defines 39 benchmark and reports on pay data for academic jobs by length of work year, as well as analysis of data on average work week and overtime in relation to job titles. Click here for summary data from the 2006 Salary Survey.
• Engineering Salary Surveys from JobStar.Org
  JobStar provides profession-specific salary information and guidance that earned it a ranking of #7 in MediaMetrix's ranking of "Ten Internet Career Sites with the Most Visitors."
• Engineering Workforce Commission's (EWC) Personal Salary Profile
  The Engineering Workforce Commission's (EWC) Personal Salary Profile is an excellent tool for an engineer to use to evaluate his or her own salary. This profile is based on the most comprehensive salary survey conducted among the engineering community.
  

Tips

• The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method
• How to Negotiate Salary
  When replying to want ads that ask for salary requirements or a salary history, don't answer directly. In your cover letter, you could instead say: "My salary requirements are negotiable. " This shows you've read the want ad carefully, but are choosing to dodge the issue.