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Industrial Engineering Technicians

SOC 17-3026

Help industrial engineers measure and improve how a plant produces.

The job
Median pay
$66k
$56k to $80k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+3.1% projected
Openings a year
7k
BLS projection
Typical education
Associate's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
7/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
39th pct
More exposed than 39% of occupations · modeled estimate · 61st pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
52/100

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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
California5,7100.30.7×$79k
Michigan5,4101.22.5×$65k
Minnesota5,3801.83.8×$70k
Ohio5,3401.02.0×$65k
Texas5,0600.40.7×$62k
New York4,0900.40.9×$70k
Florida3,1100.30.6×$61k
Wisconsin2,6600.91.9×$65k
Tennessee2,6500.81.7×$58k
Indiana2,5600.81.6×$63k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
South Carolina2,4001.02.1×$70k
Illinois2,2600.40.8×$71k
Arizona2,0800.61.3×$66k
Massachusetts2,0700.61.2×$72k
North Carolina1,9400.40.8×$70k
Georgia1,8400.40.8×$65k
Pennsylvania1,7900.30.6×$65k
Utah1,4000.81.7×$67k
Kentucky1,3300.71.4×$61k
Virginia1,2700.30.6×$66k
Missouri1,2200.40.8×$62k
Washington1,0500.30.6×$78k
Alabama1,0100.51.0×$67k
Nevada9900.61.3×$61k
Colorado9300.30.7×$67k
New Jersey9200.20.4×$73k
Oregon9100.50.9×$76k
Louisiana8200.40.9×$63k~
Oklahoma7500.40.9×$79k
Iowa7100.50.9×$64k
Connecticut6700.40.8×$69k
New Hampshire6200.91.9×$70k
Kansas5700.40.8×$61k
Maryland4900.20.4×$79k
New Mexico4800.61.1×$61k
Mississippi4150.40.7×$50k~
Washington DC3400.51.0×$83k~
Arkansas3300.30.5×$62k
Maine3100.51.0×$63k
South Dakota3100.71.4×$55k
Idaho3000.30.7×$63k
Hawaii2680.40.9×$65k~
Nebraska2400.20.5×$60k
Alaska1870.61.2×$71k~
Rhode Island1700.30.7×$59k
Delaware1610.30.7×$66k~
West Virginia1400.20.4×$57k
Wyoming1350.51.0×$64k~
Vermont1100.40.7×$72k
North Dakota1000.20.5×$64k
Montana900.20.4×$60k

Top metro areas

  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI4,340 jobs · $73k median
  2. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI2,770 jobs · $76k median
  3. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,760 jobs · $65k median
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,580 jobs · $74k median
  5. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN1,480 jobs · $78k median
  6. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,470 jobs · $77k median
  7. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,430 jobs · $75k median
  8. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,390 jobs · $75k 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.