The United States continues to struggle with global competition as colleges continue to raise their prices for science and high-tech engineering degrees. What most students and engineers do not realize is most of the world is designing and developing complex engineering projects at a fraction of the cost. Students are receiving the same education abroad and working for a lot less and producing the same quality work.
By hiring consultants abroad Corporations are focusing on reducing costs and increasing profits which is easy to do today. Lets take a look at some of the current numbers in the United States and compare them with Latin America. Keep in mind these costs are averages. It does depend on the project, experience and if the engineer you will be working with is fluent in English. In most cases hourly in Latin America is considerably lower than the prices found in the comparison below.
2015 Engineering Consultant Hourly Pay – United States vs. Latin America
UNITED STATES $/hour
BIG DATA
Hadoop Developers = $75-$80
Hadoop Administrator = $75-$85
Big Data Architect = $85-$95
SAP HANA = $75-$95
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Mobile Apps Development:
Iphone/Android, SDK, RESTful API,
Facebook Connect API, iOS = $70
Ruby on Rails = $75
Drupal/Joomla = $75
OBIEE = $85
Silverlight = $70
Tableau Developers Admins = $70-$85
Pega Developer = $75
ERP
SAP ABAP, MySAP, SAP All-in-one,
FastStart & SAP BusinessOne = $80
SAP Functional = $90
EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards = $70-$85
Axapta = $75
Lawson = $75
Oracle Financials, Manufacturing = $75-$85
MS Dynamics = $75-$90
PROGRAMMING
J2EE, EJB = $60
.Net, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net = $60
C/C++ = $55
Biztalk = $65
VB/ASP = $55
PowerBuilder = $55
VBA = $50
REPORTS
Hyperion Essbase = $60
Business Objects = $60
Crystal Reports = $55
SQL Reporting = $55
Cognos = $55
DATAWAREHOUSE
Informatica = $55
Datastage = $55
SQL DTS = $55
DB ADMIN
Oracle DBA = $65
DB2 DBA = $65
Sybase DBA = $65
SQL DBA = $65
Moodle = $75
O/S ADMIN
Unix, AIX, NT, WebSphere,
Weblogic Administrator = $65
CAD
3D Cad = $85
General CAD = $65
OTHER
Quality Assurance Engineer = $50
Mainframe = $55
Cobol = $55
RPG = $55
SAS = $55
EDI = $60
ASIC = $50
SHAREPOINT = $75
Network Engineer = $70
ColdFusion = $65
Lab View = $60
Lotus Notes = $60
PM & BA
Project Manager = $70
Program Manager = $70
Business Analysts = $70
Technical Writers = $55
LATIN AMERICA $/hour
BIG DATA
Hadoop Developers = $35-$40
Hadoop Administrator = $35-$40
Big Data Architect = $35-$45
SAP HANA = $40-$50
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Mobile Apps Development:
Iphone/Android, SDK, RESTful API,
Facebook Connect API, iOS = $35
Ruby on Rails = $45
Drupal/Joomla = $45
OBIEE = $40
Silverlight = $35
Tableau Developers Admins = $35-$40
Pega Developer = $40
ERP
SAP ABAP, MySAP, SAP All-in-one,
FastStart & SAP BusinessOne = $40
SAP Functional = $45
EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards = $35-$40
Axapta = $40
Lawson = $40
Oracle Financials, Manufacturing = $35-$40
MS Dynamics = $30-$45
PROGRAMMING
J2EE, EJB = $25
.Net, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net = $25
C/C++ = $30
Biztalk = $30
VB/ASP = $30
PowerBuilder = $30
VBA = $20
REPORTS
Hyperion Essbase = $30
Business Objects = $30
Crystal Reports = $25
SQL Reporting = $25
Cognos = $25
DATAWAREHOUSE
Informatica = $25
Datastage = $25
SQL DTS = $25
DB ADMIN
Oracle DBA = $30
DB2 DBA = $30
Sybase DBA = $30
SQL DBA = $40
Moodle = $40
O/S ADMIN
Unix, AIX, NT, WebSphere,
Weblogic Administrator = $30
CAD
3D Cad = $50
General CAD = $35
OTHER
Quality Assurance Engineer = $25
Mainframe = $30
Cobol = $20
RPG = $30
SAS = $30
EDI = $30
ASIC = $25
SHAREPOINT = $35
Network Engineer = $35
ColdFusion = $25
Lab View = $30
Lotus Notes = $25
PM & BA
Project Manager = $30
Program Manager = $30
Business Analysts = $30
Technical Writers = $15