This page contains key outcome data for the Miscellaneous Engineering Major, estimated using US Census data. See the methodology here. For more on the College Majors Data Dashboard click here.
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Overall Major Information
- Field: STEM
- Average Income: $69,000 (Rank: 23 of 173)
- 25% Make Less Than: $41,000
- Unemployment Rate: 2.10% (Rank: 16 of 171)
- Percent Female: 24.6%
- Percent Who Get a Masters Degree: 26.6%
- Percent Who Get a Professional Degree: 2.8%
- Percent Who Get a PhD: 3.6%
- Major Popularity Ranking: 100 of 173
- Major Difficulty (1-5): NA
Careers Information
This list provides the 25 most common careers (occupations) among people in this major, and how much they earn within each occupation.
- Constructions Managers: 7.89% (Average Income: $77,000)
- Civil Engineers: 6.33% (Average Income: $74,000)
- Engineers, : 5.35% (Average Income: $76,000)
- Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety: 5.26% (Average Income: $79,000)
- Managers, (including Postmasters): 4.30% (Average Income: $85,000)
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software: 3.76% (Average Income: $87,000)
- Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians and Radio Operators, and media and communication equipment workers, all other: 3.44% (Average Income: $45,000)
- Computer Scientists and Systems Analysts/Network systems Analysts/Web Developers: 2.70% (Average Income: $111,000)
- Mechanical Engineers: 2.60% (Average Income: $79,000)
- Unemployed, with No Work Experience in the Last 5 Years or Earlier or Never Worked: 1.93%
- Designers: 1.81% (Average Income: $58,000)
- Cost Estimators: 1.73% (Average Income: $65,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers: 1.68% (Average Income: $88,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Sales Workers: 1.56% (Average Income: $69,000)
- Materials Engineers: 1.46% (Average Income: $80,000)
- Other Business Operations and Management Specialists: 1.40% (Average Income: $78,000)
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 1.19% (Average Income: $74,000)
- Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers: 1.16% (Average Income: $68,000)
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing: 1.15% (Average Income: $78,000)
- Customer Service Representatives: 1.05% (Average Income: $44,000)
- Surveyors, Cartographers, and Photogrammetrists: 1.01% (Average Income: $50,000)
- Computer Support Specialists: 0.95% (Average Income: $66,000)
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand: 0.95% (Average Income: $24,000)
- Retail Salespersons: 0.93% (Average Income: $23,000)
- Postsecondary Teachers: 0.84% (Average Income: $26,000)
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