OEWS Ranked
Highest Paying Engineering Jobs
Engineering wages are steady and licensure-sensitive. Petroleum, semiconductor, and aerospace specialties typically sit above civil and environmental averages; the PE stamp gates much of the top of the distribution.
National ranking
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Methodology
SOC major group 17 (Architecture and Engineering Occupations), ranked by national mean annual wage from BLS OEWS.
Full documentation: Wage Atlas methodology and data sources.