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What water resources engineers make
Median for the group
$100,840
Bottom tenth
$68,240
Top tenth
$163,220
The national median for the group is $100,840 a year. The bottom tenth earn $68,240 or less and the top tenth $163,220 or more (2025 federal wage survey). The wage survey does not break out water resources as its own occupation, so these are the figures for civil engineers, the group it sits inside.