Employment in the engineering profession

Between 1930 and 1934 there was a substantial net loss of employment among those engineers in the United States who entered the profession before 1930, and a considerable absorption in employment of newcomers to the profession. This is one important conclusion reached by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor after analyzing reports from 52,589 professional engineers obtained in the 1935 survey of the engineering profession conducted by the Bureau at the request and with the co-operation of American Engineering Council. This article,^∗ third in the series reporting the results of this survey, presents data pertaining to the employment of engineers during 1929–34.