Paycheck Comparison
There you sit, toiling away in your in-plant, confident your hard work is allowing your parent organization to run more smoothly, but not sure you’re being rewarded adequately for your efforts. If only you knew how much other in-plant managers were making.
Well In-Plant Graphics is here to help once again with our biennial salary survey. This year we received an impressive 380 responses. From these we have calculated average salaries in a number of different categories—data you can present to your supervisors when it’s time to talk money.
While in-plant managers’ salaries rose in almost every industry, some increased far more than others. The three industries that pay their in-plant managers best are also the ones boasting the biggest salary jumps over 2005:
• Banking/Finance (up $24,628)
• Transportation (up $17,725)
• Utilities (up $16,582)
Average salaries for in-plant managers in communications/publishing firms also rose an impressive $11,448. Also notable: salaries for college/university managers climbed $7,862 since 2005, closely followed by government in-plant salaries, which increased by $7,358.
Dropping substantially were salaries for managers at architectural, construction and engineering firms. Their checks shrank by $12,000 (or at least the average salaries of those who responded this year were lower than the 2005 respondents’ salaries).
The only other sector to suffer a salary decrease was the religious sector, where salaries dropped $2,849 (though the payoff for those managers comes from more than just money).
Click here to see the results of our 2007 salary survey and find out how your paycheck stacks up.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
