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What nuclear engineers make
Median
$95,000
Lower end
$62,000
Upper end
$151,000
Job Bank's national median is $45.67 an hour, about $95,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower end ($30) and upper end ($72.49) are the bottom and top of the wage range for the whole group, which Job Bank shares with mechanical engineers. Most of these jobs are in Ontario, with a smaller cluster in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan.