Occupation / job
Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $59,920 midpoint sits $4.75 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 20% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians.
12,190 people work as Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
These roles suit people who like precise technical work with a defined scope, and who would rather be excellent inside a boundary than accountable for where the boundary is.
We carry no verified training length for Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $48,200 and a quarter above $75,960: a 1.6x ratio, $27,760 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
The bottom quarter of Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians earns under $48,200, which is within $1,820 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if you would find it frustrating to execute someone else’s design decisions without the authority to change them.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 12,190 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
1.6x between $48,200 and $75,960 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $59,920 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
The middle half of this field earns between $48,200 and $75,960. That is $27,760 of range, with $59,920 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $75,960, the 75th percentile, is worth $16,040 a year more than the $59,920 midpoint and $27,760 more than the $48,200 a quarter of Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians settle for.
The climb from $59,920 to $75,960 is $16,040, against $11,720 down to $48,200. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians is larger than the realistic downside.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $23.17 at the bottom quarter, $28.80 at the midpoint, $36.51 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $59,920 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $59,920 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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