Career Atlas
Architecture & Engineering

Process Safety Engineers

SOC 17-2111

Identify and mitigate risks in chemical and industrial processes.

Median pay
$115k
$91k to $143k typical range
Outlook
Growing fast
2k openings / yr
Education
Bachelor's
AI exposure
40%
modeled estimate · 77th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
73/100

Key skills

Where this ranks

Take the next step

Explore Process Safety Engineers interactively →

Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2024-2034). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How we model AI exposure.