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Environmental Engineers

SOC 17-2081

Design solutions to environmental problems like pollution and water treatment.

The job
Median pay
$107k
$84k to $134k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+6.3% projected
Openings a year
2k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
High
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
56th pct
More exposed than 56% of occupations · modeled estimate · 71st pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
59/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California4,5500.21.0×$130k
New York3,1700.31.3×$101k
Texas1,9400.10.6×$123k
Washington1,9200.52.2×$125k
Massachusetts1,8800.52.1×$116k
Florida1,8000.20.7×$117k
Pennsylvania1,7500.31.2×$103k
Colorado1,3200.51.9×$107k
North Carolina1,1670.21.0×$99k~
Minnesota1,0800.41.5×$116k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Maryland1,0300.41.5×$98k
Virginia1,0100.21.0×$105k
New Jersey9900.20.9×$103k
Illinois9400.20.6×$108k
Wisconsin8900.31.2×$90k
Georgia8300.20.7×$97k
Michigan8100.20.8×$105k
Alabama7800.41.5×$103k
Ohio7300.10.5×$113k
Arizona6900.20.9×$94k
Oregon6500.31.3×$127k
South Carolina5600.21.0×$96k
Tennessee5400.20.7×$97k
Oklahoma5300.31.3×$92k
Indiana5200.20.7×$92k
Missouri5100.20.7×$98k
New Mexico5000.62.3×$108k
Connecticut4500.31.1×$115k
Utah4100.21.0×$103k
Idaho4000.51.9×$118k
West Virginia3700.52.1×$83k
Kentucky3500.20.7×$108k
Louisiana3400.20.7×$131k
Kansas3200.20.9×$94k
Montana3000.62.4×$100k
Nevada2900.20.8×$110k
Nebraska2700.31.1×$121k
Alaska2600.83.2×$110k
Mississippi2600.20.9×$91k
Maine2200.31.4×$94k
Arkansas2100.20.7×$85k
New Hampshire2100.31.3×$89k
Rhode Island2000.41.6×$101k
Wyoming2000.72.9×$106k
Washington DC1730.21.0×$135k~
Delaware1500.31.3×$96k
Hawaii1500.21.0×$108k
Iowa1500.10.4×$95k
Vermont1100.41.5×$93k
North Dakota900.20.8×$91k
South Dakota900.20.8×$99k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,810 jobs · $108k median
  2. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,460 jobs · $110k median
  3. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA1,200 jobs · $133k median
  4. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA1,050 jobs · $128k median
  5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,040 jobs · $129k median
  6. Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO910 jobs · $108k median
  7. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA890 jobs · $128k median
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV810 jobs · $121k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.