Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians · SOC 17-3026

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicianss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for industrial engineering technologists and technicians. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (4 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 204 metro areas

Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$121,320	70	0.4
2	Midland, TX	$114,140	30	0.3
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$90,660	1,000	0.9
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$90,620	660	0.3
5	Savannah, GA	$89,850	70	0.4
6	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$84,410	100	0.5
7	Oklahoma City, OK	$83,370	450	0.7
8	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$82,480	450	1.0
9	Ogden, UT	$82,370	340	1.3
10	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$82,270	250	0.9
11	Warner Robins, GA	$82,120	280	3.7
12	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$81,560	260	0.3
13	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$80,310	230	0.2
14	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$80,180	1,220	0.5
15	Fond du Lac, WI	$79,500	100	2.2
16	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$79,480	100	1.1
17	Peoria, IL	$79,180	50	0.3
18	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$78,890	100	0.3
19	Evansville, IN	$78,760	110	0.8
20	Wilmington, NC	$78,740	120	0.6
21	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$78,700	90	0.2
22	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$78,100	1,260	2.3
23	Dubuque, IA	$77,860	60	1.0
24	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$77,640	1,380	0.2
25	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$77,600	1,480	1.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.