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How We Deliver Salary Insights Today

 

While this annual salary survey is no longer produced on a fixed schedule, compensation insights remain a core part of how we support clients. Today, we deliver custom salary and market compensation insights by client request, leveraging real-time hiring data, active candidate pipelines, and proprietary market intelligence across IT, engineering, and technical roles.

 

If you’re evaluating compensation for a specific role, location, or project team, contact us to request a tailored salary analysis aligned to current market conditions.

 

Need current compensation insight for a specific position? Contact us to request current salary benchmarking for your role, location, or hiring needs.

 


 

Refining & Chemical Industry Salary Survey

Refining & Chemical Industry Salary Survey: Highlights

As an ongoing part of our value-added services, we conducted a comprehensive salary benchmarking survey on the key positions within the refining, chemicals, manufacturing, and related industries. We appreciate the participation received from our database and network of engineering and technical professionals across the United States providing their current compensation data.

Findings from our survey of engineering and technical professionals – who completed the survey anonymously – include:

  • =Geographic location
  • =Industry
  • =Highest level of education
  • =Years of experience
  • =Current job title
    • =Base salary
    • =Target bonus
    • =Financial incentives
    • =Non-financial incentives

    The infographic below provides a visual summary of our findings.

    2020.Whitaker Technical Compensation Benchmark

    2020 Benchmark

    2020.Whitaker Technical Compensation Benchmark

    2019 Benchmark

    2019.Whitaker Techncial Salary Benchmark

    2018 Benchmark

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    2017 Benchmark

    Whitakertechnical Salarysurvey Summary 2017

    2016 Benchmark

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    I have known Linda for several years and have consistently been impressed with her recruitment and communication skills. It’s a rare thing to be able to discuss the nuances, trends and directions of your industry with a recruiter. It’s even more rare for a recruiter to understand and empathize with very technical people. Rarer still for a recruiter to follow up, keep in touch and offer useful and actionable advice. Linda embodies all these traits and is very personable with it.

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