Massachusetts Engineering: Schools and Careers

Careers and Salary Data

This table shows summary data on occupations in the US. Clicking on any occupation name brings you to a page showing job prospects and salaries for that occupation in hundreds of metro areas across the country, with data updated through 2008.(Where data is denoted by an asterisk (*), summary info was not available.

The green bars in the table below indicate the relative salary levels and growth rates of each occupation, compared to the others. The levels are determined by sorting the occupations (by salary or growth rate, separately) and then dividing them into ten groups corresponding to the the ten possible green bar levels. So a single bar means the occupation is in the bottom 10% for that characteristic compared to others on this page.

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Engineering

Occupation	Jobs	Median Pay	% Growth 2006-2016	Video
Architects	110,990	$70,320	17.7%
Biomedical Engineers	15,220	$77,400	21.1%
Chemical Engineers	30,970	$84,680	7.9%
Civil Engineers	261,360	$74,600	18%
Computer Hardware Engineers	73,370	$97,400	4.6%
Electrical Engineers	154,670	$82,160	6.3%
Electronics Engineers	139,930	$86,370	3.7%
Engineering Managers	182,300	$115,270	7.3%
Engineers	169,240	$88,570	5.5%
Environmental Engineers	52,590	$74,020	25.4%
Health and Safety Engineers	25,190	$72,490	9.6%
Industrial Engineers	214,580	$73,820	20.3%
Landscape Architects	21,130	$58,960	16.4%
Mechanical Engineers	233,610	$74,920	4.2%
Petroleum Engineers	20,880	$108,020	5.2%
Urban and Regional Planners	37,120	$59,810	14.5%