Would you tell me how much you would earn per hour ,if you were a pcb layout engineer?
and how much you will pay a pcb layout design , if you were a customer who found a layout company?
In my country the recommended minimun salary for a newly qualified engineer is 4018 USD per month if you got a bachelor degree and 4135 USD per month if you got a master degree.
As an (engineering) student I get paid ~ 600 USD by our Government per month. Every student in my country can get 600 USD per month throughout the whole education, paid by the Government and we only have to pay for the books we use for our study.
Actually SI is meant Signal Integrity >SI Engineer is an engineer study noise, crosstalk, progation delay, rise, fall time aspect of a design esp in board design