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Engineers paid well to handle changes

Packaging engineers earn a good income and many received a healthy pay raise last year, according to Packaging World's exclusive salary survey. But many feel their effectiveness is limited by perpetual crisis management, downsizing and unrealistic schedul

Today's packaging engineer isn't complaining about his or her salary. But there are fewer of them collecting a paycheck than a year ago, and the pressure is being felt by those who remain, according to Packaging World's exclusive salary and job satisfaction survey.

Of 280 survey respondents, 70 identified themselves as packaging, production or project engineers, which are combined into this "packaging engineer" category. In later reports, purchasing and management titles will be profiled. For more details on how the survey was conducted, see the main story, p. 52.

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