MEMBER UPDATE
August 5, 2008
2008 SALARY AND BENEFITS SURVEY IS ON-LINE
The Texas CEC Salary and Benefits Survey is on-line and access information is being distributed to member firms this week. The final report will provide information on a variety of engineering, surveying, technician, administrative, marketing, management and other positions in Texas offices of firms. Where the data are adequate to allow it, information is reported by metropolitan area.
Firms that participate in the survey by providing information on their Texas office will be charged $175 and will receive the final report around the 1st of October. The report will be available to nonparticipants for $750 but not until after February 2009.
Access information (website address, user ID, and password) will be sent to our main contact in each firm (and to the Human Resources coordinator, if known to us) by Friday. If you do not receive the access information, or if you wish to have the information sent to a particular person in your firm, please contact Michael Hancock at mike@cectexas.org or 512.474.1474 ext. 2.
Responses to the survey will be due Friday, August 29.
TEXAS CEC FALL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING ISSUES
TEXAS CEC will hold a one-day Emerging Issues Conference in The Woodlands on November 14. The conference will include a look at "green infrastructure" issues as well as a preview of upcoming legislative issues. More information, including registration, will be provided at a later date, but mark your calendar.
IN THE NEWS
Go to the Members Only section of www.cectexas.org for "News to Use" - newspaper articles from around the state on engineering, construction, environmental issues, public works, legislative matters and more, including:
- The continuing construction job crisis has cost 522,000 jobs since the start of 2007, according to a government agency.
- Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones of San Antonio may join the race for the U.S. Senate seat if Sen. Kay Hutchison resigns next year.
- Elof Soderberg, former general manager of the LCRA, died Sunday at the age of 81.
- Fort Bend County in 2007 enjoyed the largest percentage increase of all U.S. counties.
- Former Transportation Commissioner Hope Andrade has been appointed Secretary of State by Gov. Perry.
- The U.S. House passed a bill last week with $1.8 billion in construction funds for Ft. Bliss.
- A $1.6 trillion bill is coming due across the U.S. as governments face the task of repairing aging infrastructure.
- A study says that a commuter rail line between Austin and San Antonio would cost $2.4 billion.
- It would cost $140 billion to repair the nation's bridges if work started immediately, a safety group said.
- As Americans drive less, the highway fund feels the impact.
- and much more . . . .
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