Materials Engineers

What do Materials Engineers do?

Evaluate materials and develop machinery and processes to manufacture materials for use in products that must meet specialized design and performance specifications. Develop new uses for known materials. Includes those engineers working with composite materials or specializing in one type of material, such as graphite, metal and metal alloys, ceramics and glass, plastics and polymers, and naturally occurring materials. Includes metallurgists and metallurgical engineers, ceramic engineers, and welding engineers.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2131)

What our data shows for Materials Engineers

RoleHue publishes 66 salary records for Materials Engineers, across 2 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $123,779 at the 25th percentile to $142,216 at the 75th, a spread of $18,437 around $131,450. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $131,450 figure rather than in dollars (14% of it), that spread is tighter than 87% of the roles we cover, so a single record tells you more here than it would for most titles.

Hillsboro, OR carries the highest median we hold for the role at $133,432; Chandler, AZ the lowest at $124,090, a gap of $9,342.

Most of the evidence on this page sits in Hillsboro, OR, with 52 of the 66 records we publish for this role (79%), so the weighted figures above lean on a single metro more than on the country. Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 2 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 66 data points.

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