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Industrial Engineers
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.
What an industrial engineer does
Become an industrial engineer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good industrial engineer
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
- Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $71 per hour with an average salary of $112,800 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $48 and $78 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $52,200 and $136,800 per year.
- 58% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $70 per hour with an average salary of $65,900 per year.
Industrial Engineer job outlook
- There are 6,807 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 630 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 10% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.