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What chemical engineers make

Median

$108,000

Lower end

$57,000

Upper end

$160,000

Job Bank's national median is $51.92 an hour, about $108,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower and upper ends are Job Bank's low and high wages for everyone in the group, $27.45 and $76.92 an hour. You start as an EIT (engineer-in-training) straight out of school.