Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
What the pay figures show
- A job board will not tell you this about this job. The best headline number is Oklahoma, at $79,330. State taxes differ, so Washington leaves you more. Prices differ too, so Oklahoma leaves you better off again — $69,738 once levelled out. Moving for the biggest salary can leave you worse off.
- Wage data for industrial engineering technologists and technicians places Oklahoma first at $79,330. That position is not robust: state income tax alone reorders it to Washington, and regional price parity reorders it again to Oklahoma at $69,738. Because published comparisons almost universally stop at the nominal median, the state that appears best for this occupation is routinely not the state where a worker's income goes furthest.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$66,120
People doing it
75,570
Highest paid
$79,330
OK
Best off, really
$69,738
OK, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$47,300
Highest tenth
$99,150
Lowest, really
$46,493
MS
States with data
45
National average
$70,700
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.29%
OK, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $46,493 to $69,738. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- Only 75,570 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- This job is not published everywhere — 45 jurisdictions have a figure, with $66,120 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Oklahoma tops the ones that are.
- Geographic dispersion in industrial engineering technologists and technicians is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $46,493 through $69,738. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- National employment in industrial engineering technologists and technicians is 75,570. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- 45 jurisdictions carry a published median for industrial engineering technologists and technicians. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,150 |
| This salary | $66,120 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
$66,120around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $47,300 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $66,120 |
| Top tenth | $99,150 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $50,180 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Oklahoma · $79,330 |
| Spread | $29,150 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $62,020 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $63,823 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | $79,330 | $61,569 | $69,738 |
| ND | $64,060 | $53,652 | $60,575 |
| SC | $70,080 | $55,800 | $59,886 |
| VT | $72,410 | $57,102 | $59,090 |
| NC | $69,720 | $55,605 | $59,067 |
| WA | $78,430 | $64,006 | $58,958 |
| MD | $79,090 | $61,077 | $58,747 |
| IA | $64,410 | $52,098 | $58,690 |
| AL | $66,510 | $52,749 | $58,630 |
| OH | $65,490 | $53,717 | $58,507 |
| AR | $62,210 | $50,323 | $58,171 |
| IL | $71,090 | $55,468 | $56,110 |
| UT | $67,490 | $53,306 | $56,110 |
| WI | $65,270 | $52,204 | $56,075 |
| MN | $70,490 | $55,150 | $56,037 |
| IN | $63,110 | $51,057 | $55,386 |
| ID | $63,150 | $50,427 | $55,157 |
| NM | $61,280 | $49,704 | $54,991 |
| NH | $69,650 | $57,829 | $54,895 |
| MO | $62,440 | $50,353 | $54,874 |
| MI | $64,510 | $51,523 | $54,704 |
| KY | $61,140 | $49,284 | $54,476 |
| CA | $79,070 | $61,194 | $54,356 |
| PA | $65,260 | $52,613 | $53,962 |
| MT | $60,330 | $48,576 | $53,828 |
| GA | $65,060 | $51,808 | $53,577 |
| TX | $62,020 | $52,013 | $53,525 |
| OR | $75,760 | $56,048 | $53,522 |
| NE | $59,970 | $48,341 | $53,489 |
| KS | $61,000 | $48,078 | $53,441 |
| AZ | $66,040 | $53,995 | $53,405 |
| NV | $61,470 | $51,571 | $53,177 |
| NJ | $72,890 | $57,629 | $52,927 |
| CO | $66,850 | $53,626 | $52,895 |
| TN | $58,070 | $48,839 | $52,791 |
| CT | $69,260 | $54,495 | $52,556 |
| SD | $54,570 | $46,027 | $52,247 |
| VA | $66,310 | $52,408 | $52,018 |
| MA | $71,830 | $56,091 | $51,822 |
| WV | $57,240 | $46,423 | $51,712 |
| ME | $63,070 | $49,920 | $51,412 |
| NY | $70,290 | $55,080 | $51,178 |
| FL | $61,350 | $51,475 | $49,757 |
| RI | $59,420 | $48,116 | $47,446 |
| MS | $50,180 | $40,584 | $46,493 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $66,120, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $64,006.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Mississippi anchors the bottom at $46,493. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- These are distribution medians for industrial engineering technologists and technicians, with a national value of $66,120. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- The household modeled for industrial engineering technologists and technicians is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $64,006. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms figures for industrial engineering technologists and technicians deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.