
Salary Survey 2008: Looking at the Numbers
Mean salary: The mean salary is the average salary for that particular group. Manager: Ensures the administration of the company’s quality, process and business improvement efforts within a defined segment of the organization. Quality engineer: Designs, i...
Salary Survey 2008: The Complete Report
51 Section 6 Salary by Number of Work Hours Online Section 7 Salary by Nonexempt vs. Exempt Status Online Section 8 Salary by Number of Years in Current Position Online Section 9 Salary by Number of Years in Current Position and in the Quality Field Onli...

Raising the Bar
Now more than ever, companies must measure and manage their quality costs to compete at a high level in today’s global marketplace....
Salary Survey-Regular Employee and Self-Employed Consultants Results
45 Section 6 Salary by Number of Work Hours Online Section 7 Salary by Nonexempt vs. Exempt Status Online Section 8 Salary by Number of Years of Quality Experience and Highest Level of Education Online Section 9 Salary by Number of Years in Current Posit...
Part I Section 1 Salary by Job Title (Regular Employees)
Standard Minimum Maximum deviation Count Mean Median Full- time employees Analyst $ 30,000 $ 145,000 $ 19,951 206 $ 63,694 $ 60,000 Associate 21,000 200,000 26,118 96 61,756 56,500 Auditor 18,000 170,000 22,697 258 66,392 65,000 Black Belt 34,000 149,845...
Salary Survey – 2006
Full Survey
44 Section 6. Salary by Number of Work Hours Online Section 7. Salary by Nonexempt vs. Exempt Status Online Section 8. Salary by Number of Years' Quality Experience and Highest Level of Education Online Section 9. Salary by Number of Years in Current Pos...
Salary Survey – 2006
Regular Employee - Section 1. Salary by Job Title
Standard deviation: Standard deviation is a FIGURE A PART 1. REGULAR EMPLOYEE RESULTS Section 1 Salary by Job Title Comparison of Salaries of Full- Time And Part- Time Employees 4,731 ( difference) 77,049 ( 2006) 72,318 ( 2005) 4,777 ( difference) 71,584...
Salary Survey – 2005
Full Survey
45 Section 6. Salary by Number of Work Hours Online Section 7. Salary by Nonexempt vs. Exempt Status Online Section 8. Salary by Number of Years' Quality Experience and Highest Level of Education Online Section 9. Salary by Number of Years in Current Pos...
Salary Survey – 2005
Regular Employee - Section 1. Salary by Job Title
org Standard Minimum Maximum deviation Count Mean Median Full- time employees Analyst $ 24,500 $ 120,000 $ 19,048 132 $ 57,327 $ 54,500 Associate 15,000 106,000 20,593 49 54,119 52,000 Auditor 23,000 160,000 18,503 179 58,646 56,000 Black Belt 27,580 125...
Salary Survey – 2004
Regular Employee - Section 1. Salary by Job Title
117,976 104,410 90,930 88,858 83,853 81,216 76,438 75,270 71,043 68,352 66,126 62,885 62,195 61,719 58,945 57,870 55,421 50,422 50,018 43,845 41,571 Job title ( percentage of respondents) Vice president/ executive ( 3.0%) Master Black Belt ( 1.3%) Direct...
Salary Survey – 2004
Full Survey
( For industrial classifications and all tables related QUALITY PROGRESS I DECEMBER 2004 I 25 $ $$$$ $$$$ $$ $$$ $$$ U. S. Salary Changes by Industry 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Average Average Average Average Average Average salary Difference* salary ...
Salary Survey – 2003
Full Survey
6. QUALITY PROGRESS I DECEMBER 2003 I 31 Average salary 1999 Average salary 2000 Average salary 2001 Average salary 2002 Average salary 2003 Average salary Change from previous year Change from previous year Change from previous year Change from previous...
Salary Survey – 2003
Regular Employee - Section 1. Salary by Job Title
36- 37. As Table A shows, only 9% of U. S. respondents and 6.6% of Canadian PART 1. REGULAR EMPLOYEE RESULTS Section 1 Salary by Job Title United States Canada Count Percentage Count Percentage Analyst 238 2.4% 12 1.8% Associate 113 1.0 6 1.0 Auditor 321...
Salary Survey – 2002
Section
Consultant: Provides advice, facilitation and training on the development, administration and technical aspects of a company's quality assurance (QA) or quality control (QC) program at any or all levels in the organization. Specialist: As the primary assi...
2002 Annual Salary Survey
The American Society for Quality 2002 Annual Salary Survey is presented in two parts. Part one reports salaries of regular employees by job title; by number of years experience in the quality field; by division size, organization size, and location of...
ASQ's Black Belt Certification - A Personal Experience
Together with the growing interest in and use of Six Sigma techniques comes the need to assess the qualifications of those seeking quality leadership roles in organizations. The ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) exam is a practical and cost...
Salary Survey – 2001
Regular Employee - Section 1. Salary by Job Title
This year, the salary survey included a new job title: associate. Consultants, directors, managers, reliability engineers, software quality engineers and vice presidents have a higher average salary than the national average salary. Analysts, associates, ...
2001 Quality Progress Salary Survey
KAREN BEMOWSKI, formerly an associate editor of Quality Progress, is a senior editor of Windows 2000 Magazine in Loveland, CO. Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 21 Contents PART 1. Regular Employee Results page Section 1. Salary b...
Column: Standards Outlook: Corrective and Preventive Action In Medical Device Manufacturing
ISO 9000 made more rigorous to ensure a robust system
21 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) 820 was revised in 1995 to more closely resemble ISO 9001:1994, and what had been known as "Good Manufacturing Practices" became a Quality System Regulation...
Salary Survey – 2000
Definitions of Job Titles
Quality engineer: Designs, installs and evaluates quality assurance/quality control process sampling systems, procedures, and statistical techniques; designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; analyzes production and service lim...
Semiconductor Assembly Council Promotes Use of Quality Tools
The member companies of the Semiconductor Assembly Council represent manufacturers, assembly and test subcontractors, and end user companies. SAC was established to certify subcontractor quality and process control systems. The member firms represent...
Assessing the Quality Status of Research Organizations
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I A P R I L 2 0 0 0 I 51 Assessing the Quality Status Of Research Organizations How to measure, control and improve performance through R& D by Al Endres R E S E A R C H A N D D E V E L O P M E N T ITHOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT O...
Quality in the 21st Century: Quality Profession Must Learn to Heed Its Own Advice
The quality profession has met many challenges in the 20th century. But it is time to think about improvement. Quality has its roots in the early 20th century growth of the middle class and the need for mass produced goods. The General Motors of...
Benchmarking Your Plant Against TQM Best-practice Plants: Part 3 of 4
The Tennant Co. plant is the third of four world-class operations described in a series of articles on quality practices. The total quality management structure at Tennant includes a quality manager, a senior vice president of industrial markets, and...
Benchmarking Your Plant Against TQM Best-Practices Plants: Part 2 of 4
The Rosemount Plant of the Emerson Electric Company is the second of four world-class operations described in a series of articles on quality practices. Rosemount has combined flexible manufacturing with total quality management (TQM) techniques and...
Using Quality to Create a Viable Disaster Plan
Disaster planning The basic steps of the disaster planning process are: � Evaluating an organization's processes on the basis of sensitivity to time, regulation, stakeholder interests, civil and criminal penalties, contractual obligations, and product qu...
Implementing a Supplier Scorecard Program
Improving supplier performance is crucial in the highly competitive and customer-driven electronics industry. Conner Peripherals has used a supplier scorecard program to track the work of its vendors. Such a program requires internal support from...
The U. S. Semiconductor Industry's Wild Ride
SEMATECH (SEmiconductor MAnufacturing TECHnology) has improved its industry's research and development activities and its supplier infrastructure. This consortium of U. S. semiconductor manufacturers was established in 1987 to revive an industry whose...
Waving the White Flag
The supplier-distributor relationship in the semiconductor industry has been improved by joint development of an industry survey. In the past, each supplier annually surveyed its own distributors, but this is inefficient and ignores the need of...


