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CAD Manager's Survey 2011
14 Dec, 2011 By: Robert GreenThe results are in, and they show that job conditions are moving in a positive direction once again.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the Winter 2012 issue of Cadalyst magazine.
Once again it’s time to report the findings of my annual CAD Manager’s Survey. This year’s survey was deployed via my CAD-Manager.com web site from September 28 to October 12, 2011. We used Cadalyst e-newsletters and various social media outlets to encourage user response. We received 276 unique responses; 84.8% were from the United States, 7.6% from Canada, and the remainder from the United Kingdom, Australia, and other locations. Nearly 37% of respondents said they work in AEC, 21.4% in civil engineering, and the remainder in manufacturing and other disciplines.
As in the past, my goal was to measure a wide range of factors that affect CAD managers' jobs. Happily, the news is better this time around than in the past few recession-racked years. Here goes.
Compensation
This year’s results show a substantial increase in compensation from last year’s survey. Of course, there is uncertainty in running a survey from year to year, but the general upward trend is clearly good news!
- Average total compensation: $66,114 (up 8% from $61,176 last year)
- Standard deviation: $21,907 (down from $25,381 last year)
The narrowing of the standard deviation in salary means that 68% of CAD managers surveyed make between $44,207 and $88,021 (as compared to $35,795 and $86,557 last year), showing dramatic improvement in compensation at the lower end of the CAD management pay scale. I also asked about types of compensation this year, which break down as follows:
- Salaried CAD managers: 57% (down from 62% in 2010)
- Hourly CAD managers: 43% (up from 38% in 2010)
Last year's survey showed a trend toward more salaried CAD managers, but this year shows a return to ratios nearly identical to 2007/2008 prerecession numbers. Interestingly enough, a higher percentage of hourly CAD managers (who are almost always eligible for overtime compensation) has always predicted higher total compensation for CAD managers.
Of all CAD managers, 8.7% reported a lower salary; 35.2% no change; 52.2% a higher salary; and 3.9% did not respond. 56% of CAD managers (up from 51%) reported receiving some sort of bonus compensation in the past year.
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