Careers: EEs' salaries: Up but down: Returns from IEEE's 1975 U.S. member survey suggest that you may or may not be better off today than you were in 1972

According to nearly 50 0(K) returns from the latest IEEE membership survey, although most of the members are working (1.7 percent of the Institute's U.S. members reported that they were involuntarily unemployed), many are working for less “real” money. To update membership statistics derived from surveys conducted in 1972 and 1973, IEEE mailed out 112 707 questionnaires, to U.S. members only, between late January and mid-February of this year. The questionnaires requested not only employment and salary data but also opinions of the respondents on a variety of topics ranging from job discrimination to the IEEE's responsiveness to the nontechnical professional needs of its members. Over 40 percent of the recipients responded by the March 14, 1974, cut-off date, thereby providing an excellent picture of the status and feelings of the U.S. member.