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Highest Paying Cities for Industrial Engineers

The top 100 highest paying cities for industrial engineers (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of industrial engineers in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $135,480, Railbelt-Southwest Alaska nonmetropolitan area, Alaska is the highest paying city for industrial engineers. It is followed by Baton Rouge, Louisiana (average annual salary $120,360). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2017 [1]. For more salary information of industrial engineers in a specific city, use the links in the table.

Table 1. 100 Highest Paying Cities/Areas for Industrial Engineers

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Railbelt-Southwest Alaska nonmetropolitan area, Alaska	$135,480	$88,650	40
2	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	$120,360	$72,700	480
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California	$118,470	$75,180	4,230
4	Midland, Texas	$117,960	$84,070	150
5	Bakersfield-Delano, California	$117,720	$70,660	550
6	Los Alamos County, New Mexico	$116,990	$89,820	60
7	Anchorage, Alaska	$112,040	$71,010	30
8	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, California	$111,700	$70,900	1,190
9	Lubbock, Texas	$111,200	$63,640	70
10	Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas	$110,960	$69,120	270
11	Southwestern Wyoming nonmetropolitan area, Wyoming	$109,850	$75,770	90
12	Farmington, New Mexico	$106,240	$66,500	40
13	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington	$106,090	$70,090	6,120
14	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	$105,710	$69,630	6,310
15	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$104,100	$66,250	2,950
16	Taunton-Norton-Raynham, Massachusetts	$103,090	$66,930	140
17	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, Louisiana	$102,750	$47,210	240
18	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas	$102,350	$66,740	5,270
19	Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Washington	$102,160	$79,310	230
20	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, Maryland	$101,820	$67,950	250
21	Decatur, Alabama	$101,750	$66,270	230
22	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington	$100,410	$66,500	3,530
23	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$99,810	$66,380	4,550
24	Tucson, Arizona	$99,790	$66,420	1,010
25	Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina	$99,510	$66,980	720
26	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, Louisiana	$99,250	$57,410	470
27	Framingham, Massachusetts	$99,250	$69,700	790
28	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas	$99,180	$64,640	1,290
29	Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$98,910	$65,890	120
30	Gulf Coast Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$98,880	$53,440	170
31	Lake Charles, Louisiana	$98,810	$68,190	90
32	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia	$98,700	$65,360	1,250
33	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California	$98,540	$64,890	6,360
34	Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas	$97,670	$59,360	4,600
35	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, California	$97,330	$68,940	280
36	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$97,290	$66,210	6,470
37	Corvallis, Oregon	$97,280	$65,700	n/a
38	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York	$97,140	$56,880	1,260
39	Northeastern Virginia nonmetropolitan area, Virginia	$96,990	$62,900	80
40	Bismarck, North Dakota	$96,920	$81,090	40
41	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, California	$96,800	$64,100	1,590
42	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, New Hampshire	$96,680	$66,230	770
43	Amarillo, Texas	$96,660	$70,040	40
44	Pittsfield, Massachusetts	$96,210	$66,530	130
45	Longview, Washington	$96,030	$55,130	70
46	Las Cruces, New Mexico	$95,960	$60,590	40
47	Wilmington, New Jersey	$95,900	$66,000	670
48	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, California	$95,750	$66,630	380
49	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, California	$95,510	$60,790	9,160
50	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$95,420	$57,940	5,980
51	Corpus Christi, Texas	$95,110	$62,480	310
52	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California	$95,040	$62,010	2,920
53	Trenton-Ewing, New Jersey	$94,950	$68,290	180
54	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$94,830	$67,050	820
55	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado	$94,770	$60,650	1,670
56	Richmond, Virginia	$94,470	$65,460	620
57	Visalia-Porterville, California	$94,380	$64,560	80
58	Sioux City, South Dakota	$94,230	$60,470	110
59	Colorado Springs, Colorado	$94,040	$54,570	390
60	Newark-Union, Pennsylvania	$93,790	$64,020	1,410
61	Lebanon, Pennsylvania	$93,770	$66,680	70
62	Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina	$93,630	$57,990	1,500
63	Fayetteville, North Carolina	$93,440	$59,290	60
64	Vallejo-Fairfield, California	$92,530	$54,540	100
65	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia	$92,370	$19,380	1,920
66	Sherman-Denison, Texas	$92,230	$67,770	60
67	New Bedford, Massachusetts	$92,190	$55,180	110
68	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania	$92,180	$63,430	4,150
69	Pueblo, Colorado	$92,000	$63,770	50
70	West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area, Kentucky	$91,800	$64,600	230
71	West Central North Dakota nonmetropolitan area, North Dakota	$91,720	$45,140	90
72	New Haven, Connecticut	$91,710	$61,720	610
73	Peabody, Massachusetts	$91,680	$60,840	140
74	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$91,530	$60,880	930
75	Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Michigan	$91,520	$60,940	16,030
76	Tacoma, Washington	$91,320	$53,170	190
77	Albuquerque, New Mexico	$91,290	$71,620	1,060
78	Augusta-Richmond County, South Carolina	$91,090	$61,180	470
79	Bay City, Michigan	$91,030	$57,980	70
80	Camden, New Jersey	$91,030	$61,740	560
81	Mobile, Alabama	$91,000	$66,970	410
82	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, California	$90,950	$52,160	2,820
83	Northern Mountains Region of California nonmetropolitan area, California	$90,610	$64,200	30
84	Springfield, Massachusetts	$90,530	$64,660	600
85	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, Rhode Island	$90,480	$56,460	750
86	Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana	$90,240	$64,620	80
87	Peoria, Illinois	$89,920	$64,810	1,310
88	Waco, Texas	$89,750	$61,710	130
89	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, Michigan	$89,500	$63,700	5,180
90	Fresno, California	$89,390	$53,140	130
91	New Iberia nonmetropolitan area, Louisiana	$89,330	$66,310	240
92	Cincinnati-Middletown, Ohio	$89,320	$59,090	4,150
93	Flint, Michigan	$89,150	$52,800	290
94	Billings, Montana	$89,110	$64,200	80
95	Boulder, Colorado	$89,110	$52,760	620
96	Lafayette, Louisiana	$89,100	$51,070	320
97	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California	$89,100	$67,640	40
98	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut	$89,060	$59,820	1,070
99	Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado	$88,680	$54,560	270
100	Nassau-Suffolk, New York	$88,640	$60,860	1,180