In mechanical design it is known as mechanical design automation (MDA) or computer-aided drafting (CAD), which includes the process of creating a technical drawing with the use of computer software.
Salary Tracker: See the highest-paid public employees in North Texas. For North Texas city and county employees, it pays to be two things: a city manager and a man. Not surprisingly, a Dallas employee, City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, tops the North Texas rankings with a 2016 salary of $400,000. The next top paid city managers come from Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington and Irving, respectively.
However, Texas was not the best-paying state for the occupation. The May 2012 BLS data reported an average salary of $42,940 per year for surgical techs in Texas. The best-paid 10 percent earned $59,020, and the lowest-paid 10 percent earned $29,490.