Industrial Engineers

What do Industrial Engineers do?

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination. Excludes “Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors” (17-2111).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2112)

What our data shows for Industrial Engineers

RoleHue publishes 310 salary records for Industrial Engineers, across 16 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $119,007 at the 25th percentile to $154,952 at the 75th, a spread of $35,945 around $139,007. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $139,007 figure rather than in dollars (26% of it), that spread is tighter than 60% of the roles we cover.

Cupertino, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $170,248; Indianapolis, IN the lowest at $98,750, a gap of $71,498. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $41,850, wider than the $35,945 band within cities: for Industrial Engineers, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Austin, TX, with 43 of the 310 records we publish for this role (14%). Evidence clears 25 records in 4 of the 16 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 310 data points.

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