Earnings
Entry-level salaries vary based on your areas of expertise, experience,
education, supervisory responsibility, accountability for projects, and
the geographic location, size, and industry of the employer.
According the
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for chemical engineers was $108,770 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $66,810, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $176,090.
In May 2019, the median annual wages for chemical engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Petroleum and coal products manufacturing |
$119,010 |
| Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences |
116,250 |
| Engineering services |
112,990 |
| Wholesale trade |
100,510 |
| Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing |
98,160 |
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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