15 Engineering Disciplines by Salary & Job Prospects15 Engineering Disciplines by Salary & Job Prospects

Rob Spiegel

June 30, 2014

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15 Engineering Disciplines by Salary & Job Prospects

Here's a snapshot of the salaries and job prospects for engineering careers by discipline. These numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that some professions such as biomedical engineering will see growth as high as 62% through 2020, while many others such as aerospace engineering and chemical engineering will see growth rates well below 10%. For most of these disciplines, job prospects will be bolstered by the retiring baby boomers combined with low graduation rates.

As for salaries, petroleum engineers are enjoying relative prosperity with a mean salary of $149,000 and top-rung earnings of $186,000. At the low end on the salary spectrum, the industrial engineer is seeing a mean of $83,000, with top earnings at $123,000.

Click on the image below to see how engineers in other disciplines are faring.

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About the Author

Rob Spiegel

Rob Spiegel serves as a senior editor for Design News. He started with Design News in 2002 as a freelancer covering sustainability issues, including the transistion in electronic components to RoHS compliance. Rob was hired by Design News as senior editor in 2011 to cover automation, manufacturing, 3D printing, robotics, AI, and more.

Prior to his work with Design News, Rob worked as a senior editor for Electronic News and Ecommerce Business. He served as contributing editolr to Automation World for eight years, and he has contributed to Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Management, Ecommerce Times, and many other trade publications. He is the author of six books on small business and internet commerce, inclluding Net Strategy: Charting the Digital Course for Your Company's Growth.

He has been published in magazines that range from Rolling Stone to True Confessions.

Rob has won a number of awards for his technolloghy coverage, including a Maggy Award for a Design News article on the Jeep Cherokee hacking, and a Launch Team award for Ecommerce Business. Rob has also won awards for his leadership postions in the American Marketing Association and SouthWest Writers.

Before covering technology, Rob spent 10 years as publisher and owner of Chile Pepper Magazine, a national consumer food publication. He has published hundreds of poems and scores of short stories in national publications.

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