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.
 Salary
Data
Entry-level salaries vary based on your areas of expertise, experience,
education, supervisory responsibility, accountability for projects, and
the geographic location, size, and industry of the employer.
According the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the median annual wage for industrial engineers was $88,020 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 $57,290, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $134,070. In May 2019, the median annual wages for industrial engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Professional, scientific, and technical services |
$96,600 |
| Computer and electronic product manufacturing |
94,140 |
| Transportation equipment manufacturing |
90,250 |
| Machinery manufacturing |
83,720 |
| Fabricated metal product manufacturing |
76,410 |
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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