Electrical Engineering Career Information
Electrical and electronics engineers held about 288,000 jobs in 2000, making their occupation the largest branch of engineering. Most jobs were in engineering and business consulting firms, government agencies, and manufacturers of electrical and electronic and computer and office equipment, industrial machinery, and professional and scientific instruments. Transportation, communications, and utilities firms as well as personnel supply services and computer and data processing services firms accounted for most of the remaining jobs.
California, Texas, New York, and New Jersey-States with many large electronics firms-employ nearly one-third of all electrical and electronics engineers.
For more career information see the Bureau of Labor Statistics site.
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