Salaries of Automation Professionals

You may have noticed at CR4 that access to information does not necessarily equate to more folk being highly skilled/naturally talented. Just as easier access to more recorded music doesn't lead to better quality popular music.

You still need to know what to learn. Or put another you need to what you don't know in order to find out more about it. Now, if there was a way to teach that then who would need engineers?

I think that less than stellar compensation is widely attributable to talented folk not knowing their true worth. They are being exploited in the worst way. More experienced practitioners know how much their absence can cost a customer and charge accordingly. They have the nads to say "If I'm too expensive then fix it yourself or find someone who can for less" while downtime, spoilage, lost orders are stacking up over some beancounter's head. Then there are the experienced beancounters who know better than to haggle with the engineer.

Trouble is the beancounters and engineers are both getting younger.......It will work out.