Industrial 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 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians worker at that point in the distribution, so $79,040 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

May 2024 employment stood at 73,410, or 0.05% of the U.S. total. Ohio leads the state table with 6,200 jobs; the top three states sum to 23.7% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Minnesota posts a location quotient of 3.91, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $51,300 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($97,670) is 2.1 times the 10th percentile ($46,370), a gap of $51,300 a year. The mean of $69,780 sitting above the median of $64,790 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Alaska posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $94,110, and Ohio the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians stands number 318 by employment and number 335 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 33% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.9% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 19 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $64,790, 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

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is the largest metro employer with 4,400 jobs, 6.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 212 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $49,420 a year, against $95,520 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $64,790 works out to $5,399 a month before taxes, $2,492 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,246 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($53,230) to the 75th ($79,040) is worth $25,810 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $71,269 would sit between the median ($64,790) and the 75th percentile ($79,040), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $53,230, is $11,560 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

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: Architectural and Civil Drafters, Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Computer Hardware Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other. The full directory is on the Careers hub.