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What structural engineers make
Median
$100,840
First job
$68,240
Top tenth
$163,220
The national median is $100,840 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $68,240. The federal wage survey has no separate code for structural engineers, so these are the figures for civil engineers as a whole, and structural is one specialty inside that group. Big city consulting and high-rise work pay above the middle.