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Industrial Engineers

SOC 17-2112 · 2024-2034

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.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$128,088per year
Projected openings
24,010
Projected change
+11.9%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Reading Comprehension
  2. Active Listening
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Complex Problem Solving
  5. Speaking
  6. Writing

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$144,318160
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$143,5171,480
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$139,9943,190
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$135,8251,860
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$128,387210
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$127,96150
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$120,888140
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$117,5092,560
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$115,660250
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$115,01390
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$112,846510
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$111,4804,140
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$108,3812,130
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$106,62120
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$106,1381,090
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$104,135210
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$102,820260
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$102,10140
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$101,74220
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$100,48920
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$100,18160
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$99,934160
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$93,63730
Merced MSA (Merced County)$87,62830
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$87,628110

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Industrial Production Managers$134,84518,120+0.8%
Mechanical Engineers$134,56420,280+11.5%
Engineers, All Other$134,51319,090+6.4%
Electrical Engineers$148,07215,160+7.3%
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$165,01311,330+0.5%
Logisticians$94,44838,460+19.5%

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