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What power engineers make

Median

$102,000

Lower end

$62,000

Upper end

$157,000

Job Bank's national median is $49.23 an hour, about $102,000 a year full time. The lower end ($30) and upper end ($75.55) are the bottom and top of the range for everyone in the group. Pay tracks your certificate class: chief engineers with a 1st or 2nd class certificate run large plants.