1970 US population was 203,392,031. 2022 population was 333,271,411. In 1970, mech engineer was 0.88 per thousand, in 2022 it was 0.83. It is a slight drop, but if only taking the working age population as the base, the drop will look bigger. It is always the persentage, distribution and most importantly trend matters, not the absolute numbers. Also higher payment means difficult to find qualified people, good thing for the individual, bad for the industry.
These data are very likely accurate since they use self-reported employment titles from the American Community Survey (so Dilbert would likely list himself as an accountant in a self-reported Census form) and from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (which uses unemployment insurance filings - how much firms pay for unemployment insurance is set by, among others, what titles/occupations employees hold so companies lying would be fraud and therefore unlikely to happen).Have you ever read a Dilbert cartoon?
The creator of the Dilbert cartoon, was an engineer.
However, he was not an engineer by training. The company he used to work for, labelled him an engineer, in his role at the workplace, when he was actually an accountant or something like that, lol.
I mean, what exactly is a sanitation engineer?
Figures like that, and what we see on the ground, could be not that clear.
The map is not the territory.
If we really want to find out the true picture, it will take a lot of digging, which no one wants to do. If someone actually does, no one is going to care anyways, they are too busy hooked on TikTok.
