Agricultural Engineers Salary and Pay
How much do Agricultural Engineers make?
The median Agricultural Engineers worker earns $84,630 a year ($40.69), and the mean annual wage is $84,240. BLS counted 1,680 people in this occupation in May 2024. The middle half of earners make between $49,930 and $103,940.
What Agricultural Engineers actually pay, from the federal wage survey: a $84,630 median, the full percentile ladder, every state's table, and the metros where the jobs and the money sit, on one page.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Conversions use 12 months, 26 biweekly periods, 52 weeks, and 2,080 hours. No level in this occupation's ladder reaches the BLS top code, so every figure the converter shows is a published estimate rather than a floor.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $43,020 | $20.68 |
| 25th percentile | $49,930 | $24.01 |
| Median (50th) | $84,630 | $40.69 |
| 75th percentile | $103,940 | $49.97 |
| 90th percentile | $132,700 | $63.80 |
The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($43,020) to the 90th ($132,700). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.
Employment and concentration
The occupation employed 1,680 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. Michigan is the largest employer at 200 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 25.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oklahoma, whose location quotient of 6.30 says this work is 6.30 times as dense there as it is nationwide.
Pay inside the occupation is wide: $89,680 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($132,700) is 3.1 times the 10th percentile ($43,020), a gap of $89,680 a year. The mean of $84,240 sitting near the median of $84,630 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.
Pay by state
Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 10 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Ohio at $111,200; the jobs leader is Michigan:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 200 | 0.0 | 4.10 | $90,340 | $91,470 |
| Oklahoma | 120 | 0.1 | 6.30 | $92,010 | $84,630 |
| Indiana | 100 | 0.0 | 2.78 | $90,470 | $84,640 |
| Arkansas | 80 | 0.1 | 5.63 | $76,420 | $59,990 |
| Ohio | 60 | 0.0 | 1.01 | $107,640 | $111,200 |
| Florida | 40 | 0.0 | 0.38 | $101,800 | $98,180 |
| Nebraska | 40 | 0.0 | 3.79 | $95,090 | $75,760 |
| Texas | 40 | 0.0 | 0.28 | $117,540 | $104,980 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | 0.0 | 1.27 | $104,120 | $94,310 |
| Pennsylvania | n/p | n/p | n/p | $79,930 | $73,930 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Agricultural Engineers stands number 807 by employment and number 183 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Architecture and Engineering Occupations, the group median wage is $96,690 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 12% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 6 of the 10 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $84,630, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.
Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit
Oklahoma City, OK is the largest metro employer with 110 jobs, 6.5% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.
Largest metro employers
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City, OK | 110 | $91,950 | $84,630 |
| Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN | 50 | $94,380 | $85,410 |
| San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR | 40 | $45,390 | $44,800 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
The median Agricultural Engineers paycheck, gross, is $3,255 every two weeks on an annual $84,630, which is $7,052 a month and $1,628 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,930) to the 75th ($103,940) is worth $54,010 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.
To place a real offer: a salary of $93,093 would sit between the median ($84,630) and the 75th percentile ($103,940), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,930, is $34,700 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.
Related occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations
Sibling occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations: Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Surveying and Mapping Technicians, Surveyors, Mechanical Drafters, Environmental Engineers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.
Frequently asked questions
How much do Agricultural Engineers make?
The median annual wage is $84,630 and the mean is $84,240 in the BLS OEWS May 2024 estimates. The middle half of workers earn between $49,930 and $103,940 a year.
Which state pays Agricultural Engineers the most?
By median annual wage, Ohio leads the state table at $111,200, based on 60 jobs in that state. By mean wage and by headcount the leaders can differ, so the state table on this page shows all three measures side by side.
How many Agricultural Engineers are there in the United States?
BLS counted 1,680 wage and salary workers in this occupation in May 2024, 0.00% of all U.S. employment in the survey. The largest state employer is Michigan with 200 jobs.
What do the OEWS percentiles mean for Agricultural Engineers?
They mark points in this occupation's pay distribution. One worker in ten earns $43,020 or less and one in ten earns $132,700 or more; the median, $84,630, is the wage of the worker exactly in the middle of the 1,680 counted jobs.