Industrial Engineer salary
What an industrial engineer actually earns, from 332 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see industrial engineer pay in the 2 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
An industrial engineer earns a blended US median near 99,826 dollars, with the typical middle running from 86,171 dollars to 123,254 dollars. The official OEWS median is higher, 101,140 dollars, because job ads skew toward the roles that pay below the occupation-wide average. The official trend has moved up about 15 percent since 2019. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 89,227 dollars to 113,878 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 1% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 36 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open industrial engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Industrial Engineer / Project Lead Product Stream - 100% at KistlerWinterthur, Zürich, Switzerland2d agoApply
Senior Manager, Industrial Engineer at HellofreshAurora, IL, United States; Goodyear, AZ, United States$128k–$148k2d agoApply
Production Engineer at Lonza Group AGEyholz, Valais, Switzerland2d agoApply
Sr Industrial Engineer at American Axle & ManufacturingSilao, Gto.2d agoApply
Industrial Engineer III - OSS at JabilChihuahua, Chih.2d agoApply
INGENIERO DE VENTAS – SECTOR ELÉCTRICO INDUSTRIAL at ElectrumMoravia, San José3d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$86,171$99,826$123,254
- United Kingdom$61,396$68,218$95,069
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Oregon$124,560
- California$123,070
- Washington$119,670
- Arizona$110,100
- Maryland$109,560
- New Jersey$103,880
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness an industrial engineer profile already covers.
- 43 open aerospace engineer roles$129,497 median · +$29,671 · 16% readiness
- 600 open electrical engineer roles$119,104 median · +$19,278 · 18% readiness
- 272 open mechanical engineer roles$112,630 median · +$12,804 · 36% readiness
- 600 open qa engineer roles$112,217 median · +$12,391 · 14% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for an industrial engineer.
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Quick answers
How much does an industrial engineer make?
The blended US median is about 99,826 dollars, with a typical range from 86,171 dollars to 123,254 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 101,140 dollars.
Is industrial engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 1% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can an industrial engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 36 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 17-2112. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Industrial engineers, including health and safety.” Live corpus 332 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.