Occupation / job
Industrial 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
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians pays $66,120 at the midpoint, 32% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
75,570 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians is still a distinguishing thing to have.
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 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
Between $55,760 and $80,280 there is $24,520, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
The bottom quarter of Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians still clears $55,760 — $5,740 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you want the design authority; without the licence this role does not get it, however good you are.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 75,570 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
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $66,120 is a genuinely representative number for Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians runs $55,760 to $80,280 — $24,520 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $66,120.
Between $55,760 and $80,280 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $66,120. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,160; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $24,520.
$14,160 separates $66,120 from the $80,280 top quarter, while only $10,360 separates it from $55,760. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $26.80 at the bottom quarter, $31.78 at the midpoint, $38.59 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
The $66,120 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $66,120 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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