Materials Engineers
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 13th and 19.2th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 49,761 Materials Engineers.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $95,00075th Percentile: $127,428
95th Percentile: $198,111
99th Percentile: $293,251
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $293,251 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 $198,111 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Materials Engineers by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 4.3th and 7.2th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 14.6th and 14.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 8th and 11th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 12.1th and 17.8th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 19.4th and 35.7th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Materials Engineers:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.6%
- HS Diploma / GED: 3.5%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 18.9%
- Bachelors Degree: 52.9%
- Masters Degree: 16.4%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.8%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 6.9%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 10.2th and 14.6th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 15.9th and 20.4th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 13.8th and 19.5th percentiles.
- For Engineering Technologies undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 7.8th and 18.3th percentiles.
- For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 20.4th and 20.7th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 22.8th and 24.2th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 2.9th and 43.7th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 21.4th and 61.5th percentiles.
- For Electrical and Mechanic Repairs and Technologies undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 0th and 0th percentiles.
- For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 9.2th and 11.4th percentiles.
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 2017-2022. These results represent 49,761 Materials Engineers. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 1450 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