What Construction Engineering Technology/Technician Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $79,485 year-one median and the $104,011 year-five median for Construction Engineering Technology/Technician come from federal earnings records pooled across 72 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (3,162 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

Five years out, the median graduate earns $104,011, which is $24,526 more than the year-one median of $79,485 (31% growth). Set against the median field overall ($45,010 at year one, $65,763 at year five), this field starts above the pack and ends above it.

One more cut of the year-one data: Pell recipients in Construction Engineering Technology/Technician post a median of $79,644, non-recipients $77,700. That $1,944 gap is the distance between two different student populations studying under one field name, and it narrows or widens by institution, which the program table below hints at.

Inside its own CIP family, Construction Engineering Technology/Technician ranks 1 of 10 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $86,833. Its closest sibling is Engineering-Related Fields at $96,473, below this field's $104,011. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Construction Engineering Technology/Technician stands number 8 by five-year earnings and number 10 by first-year earnings, and number 78 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 70 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 36 programs that report debt for Construction Engineering Technology/Technician, the median graduate owes $20,363. Set beside the $79,485 year-one median, the debt is 26% of first-year gross earnings, about 3.1 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $231 monthly and $7,408 in interest. The student loan payoff calculator replays that schedule with your numbers, and the college ROI calculator weighs the full cost against the earnings table above.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

Where a student studies inside this field matters at least as much as the field itself. These five programs post the strongest five-year medians in Construction Engineering Technology/Technician among programs with at least 30 graduates in the count, led by University of Florida at $115,236, against a national field median of $104,011.

Treat the top of this table as a research list, not a ranking to enroll by: medians reflect local labor markets and student mix as much as teaching. The honest comparison pairs each program's earnings here with its net price from the net price estimator and its four-year total from the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 28.9% of the 2,193 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $115,236 sits 11% above the national field median of $104,011. Its median debt, $14,828, runs below the field median of $20,363, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.