Industrial Engineers salary

SOC 17-2112 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$102,440

per year, nationally

Middle half

$83,600–$129,250

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

365,740

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+11.0%

25,200 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$74,370$159,860

10th: $74,370
25th: $83,600
Median: $102,440
75th: $129,250
90th: $159,860

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where industrial engineers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Alaska	$156,510	102.4	220	0.28×
2	Washington	$129,050	107.0	6,130	0.73×
3	Oregon	$128,290	103.4	5,810	1.26×
4	New Mexico	$128,090	92.2	1,140	0.56×
5	California	$124,600	110.7	32,680	0.76×
6	Hawaii	$123,800	110.0	50	0.04×
7	Louisiana	$122,920	88.2	1,710	0.38×
8	Wyoming	$122,070	92.7	240	0.36×
9	Delaware	$120,190	99.8	820	0.72×
10	Maryland	$119,930	105.0	3,900	0.60×
11	Colorado	$109,750	103.1	5,200	0.77×
12	Massachusetts	$109,420	105.8	11,470	1.34×
13	Rhode Island	$109,350	102.3	990	0.84×
14	West Virginia	$108,360	89.5	850	0.51×
15	Arizona	$108,280	100.7	7,520	0.99×
16	Texas	$104,560	97.1	30,980	0.94×
17	Montana	$104,430	94.6	390	0.33×
18	Connecticut	$104,160	103.6	6,020	1.51×
19	Utah	$103,940	98.9	5,520	1.35×
20	New Jersey	$103,840	108.8	6,870	0.68×
21	District of Columbia	$103,300	109.9	160	0.10×
22	Vermont	$103,010	98.0	440	0.62×
23	Minnesota	$102,660	98.6	17,580	2.53×
24	New York	$102,640	107.9	11,810	0.52×
25	Virginia	$102,550	101.1	5,580	0.58×
26	Nevada	$102,090	100.0	1,570	0.43×
27	Michigan	$101,680	96.2	30,990	2.99×
28	Florida	$101,610	103.4	14,050	0.60×
29	New Hampshire	$101,310	104.2	1,940	1.21×
30	South Carolina	$101,060	93.7	7,960	1.47×
31	Maine	$101,030	97.0	1,030	0.68×
32	Idaho	$100,840	95.5	1,330	0.66×
33	Illinois	$100,540	100.0	18,640	1.30×
34	Georgia	$100,100	96.3	8,940	0.78×
35	Ohio	$100,060	92.8	23,480	1.80×
36	Alabama	$99,880	88.8	7,650	1.54×
37	Kansas	$99,830	90.1	3,450	1.02×
38	Pennsylvania	$99,560	97.6	13,180	0.92×
39	North Carolina	$99,310	94.3	11,580	1.00×
40	Missouri	$99,290	90.8	5,070	0.73×
41	Tennessee	$99,080	91.9	7,440	0.96×
42	Arkansas	$98,410	86.9	1,710	0.56×
43	Nebraska	$98,170	90.1	1,160	0.48×
44	Iowa	$97,690	87.8	3,600	0.98×
45	Oklahoma	$97,510	87.8	2,170	0.54×
46	Indiana	$97,480	93.3	11,680	1.55×
47	Wisconsin	$96,980	94.1	13,070	1.89×
48	North Dakota	$96,940	89.0	600	0.59×
49	Kentucky	$96,820	90.2	6,070	1.29×
50	Mississippi	$95,830	87.0	2,450	0.90×
51	South Dakota	$93,200	88.6	830	0.77×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where industrial engineers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for industrial engineers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Anchorage, AK	$171,910	105.4	110	0.27×
2	Charleston, WV	$143,860	88.7	160	0.65×
3	Midland, TX	$141,120	95.8	320	1.11×
4	Lexington Park, MD	$139,600	100.8	160	0.98×
5	Billings, MT	$139,420	93.5	110	0.48×
6	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$136,950	110.4	4,800	1.80×
7	Albuquerque, NM	$132,290	95.5	820	0.86×
8	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$132,230	115.6	5,470	0.98×
9	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$131,870	101.1	650	1.62×
10	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$131,740	109.9	120	0.53×
11	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$131,210	111.1	4,590	0.94×
12	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$129,890	105.4	5,230	1.84×
13	Baton Rouge, LA	$129,500	90.8	470	0.49×
14	Lake Charles, LA	$129,260	85.9	180	0.74×
15	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	$128,690	85.1	60	0.30×
16	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$127,340	92.6	460	0.44×
17	Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA	$126,090	92.7	60	0.25×
18	Urban Honolulu, HI	$125,980	111.0	50	0.05×
19	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$123,660	90.0	710	1.85×
20	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$123,540	106.9	1,210	1.27×
21	Corpus Christi, TX	$122,470	92.7	350	0.77×
22	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$121,660	107.8	230	0.47×
23	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$121,360	102.4	100	0.82×
24	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$119,990	104.5	2,110	0.66×
25	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$119,790	108.8	380	0.81×
26	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$119,050	111.9	3,990	1.10×
27	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$118,970	108.3	9,010	1.42×
28	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$117,850	100.1	180	0.59×
29	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$117,600	108.9	2,000	0.27×
30	Peoria, IL	$117,180	91.2	1,500	3.85×
31	Boulder, CO	$117,160	105.2	960	2.12×
32	Lafayette, LA	$117,120	87.2	70	0.16×
33	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$115,870	100.4	360	1.22×
34	Barnstable Town, MA	$115,860	98.4	60	0.29×
35	Vallejo, CA	$113,630	108.5	190	0.57×
36	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$113,040	113.6	11,460	0.78×
37	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$112,440	98.2	790	1.10×
38	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$111,690	98.6	8,620	1.11×
39	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$110,830	101.0	1,050	1.14×
40	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$110,190	106.7	910	0.36×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where industrial engineers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Civil Engineers$100,840
Mechanical Engineers$104,110
Electrical Engineers$120,630
Engineers, All Other$122,930
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$130,220
Computer Hardware Engineers$161,740
Aerospace Engineers$134,960
Environmental Engineers$107,110