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What materials engineers make
Median
$100,000
Lower end
$69,000
Upper end
$138,000
Job Bank's national median is $48.08 an hour, about $100,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower end ($33.17) and upper end ($66.35) are the bottom and top of the wage range for everyone in the group. New graduates start as an EIT (engineer-in-training) in a plant or a test lab.