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Surveying the Job Market for Early-Career Civil Engineers in Cairo

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  • Talaat, Abdalla
  • Gadallah, Omar Mohyi

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“How I wish you could reshape this reality”1 was one of the messages left to us in the open-ended comments. Our engineering community is desperate for both acknowledgement of their struggles, and action against them. This study investigates the wages and working conditions of early-career civil engineers working in Cairo, hoping to assess their compensation and ascertain its fairness. An online questionnaire was delivered to 366 early-career civil engineers through non-probabilistic sampling. Engineers had an average monthly salary of 8,712 – 9,584 EGP (180 – 198 USD) and a median of 8,000 EGP (166 USD), with certain demographic factors having a more pronounced effect than others on salary, satisfaction, and social mobility. More alarming results indicate that less than 4% of the surveyed engineers have reported their satisfaction living in Egypt. Furthermore, 13% of the reported salaries fell below the 6,000 EGP national minimum wage limit, and only 8% reported a salary higher than the socially advocated 15,000 EGP limit. The results of this study have multiple implications on both the Egyptian engineering industry and engineers themselves.

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  • Talaat, Abdalla & Gadallah, Omar Mohyi, 2024. "Surveying the Job Market for Early-Career Civil Engineers in Cairo," OSF Preprints dvbqs, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:dvbqs
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/dvbqs
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