Income Percentiles by Occupation and Education Level

Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety

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Income Percentile Results

Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 22th and 33.5th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 205,087 Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety.

50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $77,564
75th Percentile: $101,012
95th Percentile: $153,196
99th Percentile: $247,588

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Income Percentile Stats

  • To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $247,588 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
  • To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $153,196 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:
  • Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 6.2th and 7.4th percentiles.
  • Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 15.8th and 23.1th percentiles.
  • Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 10.3th and 17.5th percentiles.
  • Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 18.7th and 30.7th percentiles.
  • Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 39.5th and 55.9th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety:
  • Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.7%
  • HS Diploma / GED: 6.9%
  • Associates Degree and Some College: 21.1%
  • Bachelors Degree: 51.8%
  • Masters Degree: 17.5%
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.9%
  • Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 1.1%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

  • For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 16.5th and 28.1th percentiles.
  • For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 22.3th and 36.1th percentiles.
  • For Engineering Technologies undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 12.4th and 25.4th percentiles.
  • For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 17.7th and 24.7th percentiles.
  • For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 27.4th and 43.5th percentiles.
  • For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 17.5th and 28.6th percentiles.
  • For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 24.9th and 35.5th percentiles.
  • For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 31.9th and 40.5th percentiles.
  • For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 17.8th and 26.9th percentiles.
  • For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 16.7th and 29.9th percentiles.
Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

Treemap of Undergraduate Majors

Methodology and Assumptions

This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 205,087 Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 1430 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).

Exclusions and Filters Applied:
  • Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
  • High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
  • Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can.
  • The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
  • All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
  • There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
    • Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
    • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
    • Doctoral Degree: PHd