Earnings
Earnings
for engineers vary significantly by specialty, industry, and education.
Even so, as a group, engineers earn some of the highest average
starting salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees.
 Salary
Data
According the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the median annual wage for materials engineers was $93,360 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $57,340, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $148,960. In May 2019, the median annual wages for materials engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences |
$108,860 |
| Transportation equipment manufacturing |
101,120 |
| Computer and electronic product manufacturing |
97,030 |
| Engineering services |
93,500 |
| Primary metal manufacturing |
81,580 |
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Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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