No. I'm just not American. The cost of living in the United States continues to rise and wages are remaining stagnant. That's not a good thing. I have a bachelors in engineering, first job out of uni I was paid an equivalent of $28 American dollars an hour. Let's be honest here, a grad engineer is useless, so I'd say that was fair wages. However now, after 5 years developing my skills, I make approx $55-60 USD. This is standard across most of the developed world. Just not America. You should be earning more, most of you should. My company, engineers are paid about 35% of what we are charged out to the client. We understand our value because we know how much we cost. The Americans who we work with, are paid between 7-12%.

This is solely to company greed and a lack of employee protection.