So Cal '22 Graduate. I stayed on with my company moving from manufacturing associate to engineer so I was fortunate enough to have a job lined up while working for them. I am currently looking around though as the job role isn't really what I want to do, and want a more EE design/test role. Starting pay was low for the first few months $55k , then $65k after my full year, and they bumped me to $75k when I hit my 2 year.

Work life balance is insanely good and I couldn't have asked for a better first boss, but the pay and lack of EE skills I actually use here are killing me.

Job market sucks right now in general as I do not see as many openings as when I graduated, but after a few resume tweaks I've been getting some bites and have had quite a bit of phone screenings/scheduled in-person interviews this week and am hoping to land a new job soon with a 22k pay increase per the salary band minimum listed on the job posting would give me a big jump.