Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians worker at that point in the distribution, so $75,290 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 12,500 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 1,160 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 23.0% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Oklahoma, whose location quotient of 3.31 says this work is 3.31 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $92,280, which is 2.3 times the $39,670 at the 10th, a difference of $52,610 annually. Because the mean wage ($63,070) sits above the median ($58,890), 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 Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians runs from the $97,020 median in Washington down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,160 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians stands number 651 by employment and number 425 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 39% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 22 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $58,890, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 840 jobs, 6.7% 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

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $64,910 a year, against $66,260 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians paycheck, gross, is $2,265 every two weeks on an annual $58,890, which is $4,908 a month and $1,132 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,250) to the 75th ($75,290) is worth $27,040 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 $64,779 would sit between the median ($58,890) and the 75th percentile ($75,290), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,250, is $10,640 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, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other, Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Surveying and Mapping Technicians, Surveyors. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.