Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians salary

SOC 17-3025 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$59,920

per year, nationally

Middle half

$48,200–$75,960

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

12,190

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+1.2%

1,100 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.

$39,910$96,660

10th: $39,910
25th: $48,200
Median: $59,920
75th: $75,960
90th: $96,660

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Associate'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 environmental engineering technologists and technicians 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	Washington	$100,050	107.0	270	0.97×
2	Oregon	$80,770	103.4	140	0.90×
3	Tennessee	$80,100	91.9	450	1.77×
4	Alaska	$77,860	102.4	40	1.76×
5	Nevada	$75,330	100.0	70	0.54×
6	Maryland	$67,510	105.0	250	1.16×
7	Massachusetts	$66,860	105.8	320	1.12×
8	Arizona	$65,420	100.7	190	0.74×
9	Maine	$64,660	97.0	—	—
10	South Carolina	$63,200	93.7	220	1.20×
11	New York	$62,540	107.9	470	0.62×
12	Idaho	$62,240	95.5	80	1.22×
13	Oklahoma	$61,900	87.8	370	2.78×
14	Kentucky	$61,470	90.2	200	1.29×
15	New Mexico	$61,170	92.2	130	1.90×
16	Louisiana	$60,840	88.2	100	0.65×
17	New Jersey	$60,740	108.8	400	1.19×
18	Colorado	$60,740	103.1	—	—
19	Georgia	$60,500	96.3	670	1.76×
20	Utah	$60,410	98.9	120	0.86×
21	Alabama	$60,170	88.8	230	1.38×
22	Minnesota	$60,110	98.6	50	0.23×
23	California	$60,010	110.7	2,060	1.44×
24	Pennsylvania	$59,920	97.6	250	0.52×
25	Kansas	$59,420	90.1	—	—
26	Montana	$58,870	94.6	80	2.04×
27	Iowa	$58,690	87.8	80	0.68×
28	Texas	$57,150	97.1	1,240	1.13×
29	Nebraska	$54,690	90.1	40	0.55×
30	South Dakota	$53,960	88.6	40	1.01×
31	North Carolina	$53,660	94.3	120	0.31×
32	Indiana	$53,110	93.3	130	0.53×
33	Virginia	$52,330	101.1	—	—
34	Florida	$51,970	103.4	420	0.54×
35	Ohio	$51,830	92.8	630	1.45×
36	Hawaii	$51,810	110.0	50	1.04×
37	Illinois	$51,540	100.0	80	0.18×
38	Michigan	$50,800	96.2	220	0.64×
39	Wisconsin	$49,190	94.1	310	1.36×
40	West Virginia	$47,650	89.5	40	0.67×
41	Arkansas	$45,290	86.9	200	1.99×
42	New Hampshire	$39,880	104.2	—	—
43	Mississippi	$36,680	87.0	100	1.07×

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 environmental engineering technologists and technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for environmental engineering technologists and technicians

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	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$105,250	110.4	160	1.80×
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$105,070	111.1	190	1.15×
3	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$92,230	100.2	30	0.38×
4	Knoxville, TN	$91,440	92.6	250	7.48×
5	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$88,790	105.4	120	1.24×
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$85,780	115.6	260	1.38×
7	Albuquerque, NM	$79,700	95.5	50	1.71×
8	Worcester, MA	$77,180	102.5	40	1.58×
9	Pittsburgh, PA	$77,130	94.7	80	0.89×
10	Fresno, CA	$76,240	102.2	30	0.87×
11	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$76,210	92.2	30	0.71×
12	Greeley, CO	$75,020	100.2	40	3.73×
13	Chattanooga, TN-GA	$72,860	91.5	30	1.64×
14	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$72,090	101.0	70	2.36×
15	Huntsville, AL	$71,280	93.1	—	—
16	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$71,040	95.7	—	—
17	Kansas City, MO-KS	$67,560	92.5	100	1.11×
18	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$67,020	103.3	130	0.69×
19	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$66,200	104.5	190	1.83×
20	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$65,790	112.6	500	0.67×
21	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$65,760	96.3	100	1.13×
22	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$63,720	108.3	200	0.95×
23	Baton Rouge, LA	$62,960	90.8	—	—
24	Oklahoma City, OK	$62,920	90.4	230	4.42×
25	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$62,880	100.9	50	0.74×
26	Columbus, OH	$62,600	95.5	180	2.07×
27	Columbia, SC	$62,320	93.7	40	1.32×
28	Madison, WI	$62,080	97.3	40	1.24×
29	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$62,050	104.8	30	0.22×
30	Tulsa, OK	$61,900	89.2	60	1.55×
31	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$61,560	106.7	190	2.23×
32	Dover, DE	$60,850	97.5	40	7.53×
33	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$60,740	105.8	—	—
34	St. Louis, MO-IL	$60,610	95.1	—	—
35	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$60,500	100.1	540	2.36×
36	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$59,340	106.4	260	1.93×
37	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$59,170	97.3	70	0.65×
38	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$58,830	113.6	350	0.72×
39	Jacksonville, FL	$58,440	99.5	40	0.63×
40	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$58,020	111.9	340	2.78×

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 environmental engineering technologists and technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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