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Engineer salary varies by field.
- An engineer's salary varies according to specialization.
- In many cases, engineering can be a lucrative career.
- We used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to rank annual salaries for 19 engineering specializations.
Engineering can be a lucrative career, and different specializations offer different levels of compensation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program provides an annual guide to median pay and number of people employed in about 800 detailed occupations. We used that data to compare the median annual salaries associated with 19 engineering occupations.
Here are those occupations ranked by median engineer salary as of May 2017, along with the number of Americans employed in that occupation and a brief description of what each type of engineer does from the Department of Labor's O*NET Online occupational database.