Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($47,010) to the 90th ($114,630). 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

With 64,410 jobs nationally, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other make up 0.04% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 8,570 of those jobs, the top three states hold 31.4%, and the deepest concentration sits in Alaska (location quotient 4.09, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $114,630, which is 2.4 times the $47,010 at the 10th, a difference of $67,620 annually. Because the mean wage ($79,740) sits above the median ($77,390), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other runs from the $109,120 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (8,570 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other stands number 346 by employment and number 234 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 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.5% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 21 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $77,390, 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

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 3,750 jobs, 5.8% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $62,480 a year, against $106,050 in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other paycheck, gross, is $2,977 every two weeks on an annual $77,390, which is $6,449 a month and $1,488 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($59,700) to the 75th ($97,760) is worth $38,060 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 $85,129 would sit between the median ($77,390) and the 75th percentile ($97,760), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $59,700, is $17,690 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Aerospace Engineers, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Surveying and Mapping Technicians, Surveyors, Mechanical Drafters. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.