Engineering
What you can do with Industrial Engineering
Make systems efficient, from factory floors to hospital operations. Engineering meets optimization.
- Careers
- 6
- Early career
- $83,000
- Mid-career
- $100,000
- Growing fast
- 5 of 6
How these numbers work: A major does not have its own salary. Early and mid-career pay is what people who hold this degree earn at the start of their careers and midway through them. Career pay comes from the 6 careers an Industrial Engineering degree commonly leads to, and counts everyone in those jobs, including people who have been doing them for thirty years. The two answer different questions, which is why they do not match.
41% of people with this degree go on to a graduate degree, so the higher-paying careers below usually mean more school after the bachelor's.
5 of 6 careers this degree leads to are projected to grow faster than average from 2024 to 2034. Of those, Project Manager has the most openings, about 78,200 a year.
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6 careers this degree leads to
Supply Chain Manager
$107,230Plan and coordinate the movement of goods from suppliers to consumers efficiently.
- Middle half of workers
- $82,440 to $146,770
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 18,500
Work-life52Remote55Satisfaction68- Logistics
- Inventory Management
- Vendor Relations
- Data Analysis
Operations Manager
$105,770Run the day-to-day of an organization across departments, one of the most common and versatile leadership roles in business.
- Middle half of workers
- $72,320 to $167,280
- Growth
- About average
- Openings a year
- 308,700
Work-life60Remote64- Operations Leadership
- Budgeting
- Process Improvement
- People Management
Industrial Engineer
$102,440Make complex systems run better: optimize production, logistics, quality, and the human side of how work gets done.
- Middle half of workers
- $83,600 to $129,250
- Growth
- Much faster than average
- Openings a year
- 25,200
Work-life58Remote6- Process Optimization
- Lean Manufacturing
- Data Analysis
- Critical Thinking
Project Manager
$102,320Own schedules, budgets, and teams so projects actually ship, one of the most transferable careers in business.
- Middle half of workers
- $78,440 to $133,100
- Growth
- Faster than average
- Openings a year
- 78,200
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Budgeting
Operations Research Analyst
$88,940Use mathematical modeling and optimization to solve the hardest decisions in logistics, pricing, and planning.
- Middle half of workers
- $68,360 to $125,990
- Growth
- Much faster than average
- Openings a year
- 9,600
Work-life56Remote77- Optimization Modeling
- Mathematics
- Programming
- Critical Thinking
Logistician
$82,320Coordinate how products move from suppliers to customers, keeping supply chains fast, cheap, and unbroken.
- Middle half of workers
- $64,440 to $106,190
- Growth
- Much faster than average
- Openings a year
- 26,400
Work-life53Remote67- Supply Chain Coordination
- Inventory Management
- Data Analysis
- Vendor Relations
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Where these pay figures come from
Early and mid-career pay is the median annual wage of full-time workers who hold a bachelor's degree in that major, ages 22 to 27 and ages 35 to 45, from 2024 data. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (IPUMS). Published as Outcomes by Major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Career pay is the annual wage of everyone working in that occupation, not only recent graduates, so it includes people who have done the job for decades. The middle half is the 25th to the 75th percentile. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET OnLine (median and percentile annual wages May 2025; employment projections 2024-2034).
All figures are national. What you earn depends on where you work, who you work for, and how far you take the degree.