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Environmental Engineering Overview - Preparation - Day In The Life -
Earnings - Employment - Career Path Forecast - Professional Organizations


Earnings
Earnings for engineers vary significantly by specialty, industry, and education. Even so, as a group, engineers earn some of the highest average starting salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees.

Starting Salary
According the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual wage for environmental engineers was $88,860 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $54,330, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $142,070

The median annual wages for environmental engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:.

Federal government, excluding postal service $105,410
Engineering services $89,050
Local government, excluding education and hospitals $86,540
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services $84,300
State government, excluding education and hospitals $81,290

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
 


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