The results of the 2005 PCD & M Salary Survey are in, and there's plenty of good news, as well as some not-so-good news. This year, 71% of respondents (designers and design engineers) reported an increase in their base salaries in the past 12 months. But even as the percentage of respondents who said they were laid off in the last year dropped to 3.5%, the amount of time laid off rose from nine weeks in 2003 to 22 weeks in 2005. So, not many of you reported being laid off, but your time spent in the unemploy- ment line in 2005 was often measured in double-digit weeks.
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