ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the survey of the past literature on engineer's salaries indicated that an adequate taxonomic basis for quantitative enquiry to be followed by behavioural elucidation, does not exist for professionals planning their career, for educators to fit curricula to future employment patterns, or for management interested in optimal upward or inward mobility of their professional staff. Canadian engineers have been surveyed by five sets of methods: the reports of W. W. Hastings, an employer listing of major companies, the Canadian Civil Service Pay Research Bureau, the National Professional Register of the Department of Labour-and in addition, a private reconciliation of the National Register and one set of census enquiries. The chapter further proposes a model for Canadian Engineering salaries in the period since 1955. The given model is static and its application to mobility is mere 'quasistatics'.
