What Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians Graduates Earn

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

The three rows below are the whole earnings story Scorecard can tell about Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians: $75,296, then $87,710, then $90,429. Each median is graduate-weighted, built from 21 programs at year one and 19 at year five, and the unweighted program median sits alongside so a reader can see how much the weighting itself is doing.

The trajectory is the story here: $75,296 at year one, $87,710 at year four, $90,429 at year five. That is 20% growth across the window Scorecard measures, worth $15,133 a year by the fifth year. Fields with flat early curves repay debt slowly; this one's curve works in the borrower’s favor.

The Pell split adds a second lens on the $75,296 year-one median: graduates who received Pell Grants earn a median of $73,482, and graduates who did not earn $75,240, a gap of $1,758. 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, Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians ranks 4 of 10 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $86,833. Its closest sibling is Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians at $92,362, above this field's $90,429. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians stands number 33 by five-year earnings and number 16 by first-year earnings, and number 162 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 129 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 17 programs that report debt for Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians, the median graduate owes $25,000. Set beside the $75,296 year-one median, the debt is 33% of first-year gross earnings, about 4.0 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $284 monthly and $9,095 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 Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians among programs with at least 30 graduates in the count, led by Eastern Kentucky University at $100,186, against a national field median of $90,429.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of Eastern Kentucky University's counted graduates earn less than $100,186. Weigh any program here against its own price using the net price estimator and the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 37.8% of the 1,900 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 $100,186 sits 11% above the national field median of $90,429. Its median debt, $24,628, runs below the field median of $25,000, which is the trade a student at the top of this table is actually being offered.