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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