What Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians 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 $74,494 year-one median and the $92,362 year-five median for Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians come from federal earnings records pooled across 141 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (1,121 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

Earnings in this field climb $17,868 between the first and fifth year, a 24% rise that beats the all-fields pattern (the median field in this dataset pays $45,010 at year one and $65,763 at year five). Early-career growth this shape usually means the first job is a foothold: licensure, a portfolio, or a first promotion does the heavy lifting.

The Pell split adds a second lens on the $74,494 year-one median: graduates who received Pell Grants earn a median of $81,926, and graduates who did not earn $80,744, a gap of $1,182. Read it as a map of where each group studied and the networks they carried in, not as the degree paying two different wages for the same work.

Inside its own CIP family, Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians ranks 3 of 10 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $86,833. Its closest sibling is Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians at $90,429, below this field's $92,362. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians stands number 29 by five-year earnings and number 20 by first-year earnings, and number 91 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 62 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 10 programs that report debt for Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians, the median graduate owes $20,553. Set beside the $74,494 year-one median, the debt is 28% of first-year gross earnings, about 3.3 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $234 monthly and $7,477 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 Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians among programs with at least 30 graduates in the count, led by Rochester Institute of Technology at $103,135, against a national field median of $92,362.

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 5.0% of the 4,737 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 $103,135 sits 12% above the national field median of $92,362. Its median debt, $30,750, runs above the field median of $20,553, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.