Civil Engineer
Designs and stamps infrastructure that must not fail. Licensure carries personal legal responsibility for the drawing.
- Pay band (est.)
- $100k–$161k
- Time to competence
- 6 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- mixed
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 25/100
- Hours burden
- 52/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play23th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge29th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand71th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay71th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body77th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy57th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit97th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility79th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill44th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance55th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Slow projects; personal liability attaches to the stamp.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 52/100 and people intensity 55/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Civil Engineers (17-2051): median $99,590, 90th percentile $160,990. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +6.4%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.