Chemical Engineering
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Early Career Income
$118,072
Lifetime Income
$6.20M
Unemployment rate
2.3%
Female share
31.0%
Occupation concentration
47.1%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
22.6%
% who double-major
6.5%
BA Graduates from 2024
7,952
-10.0% vs 2023
How Chemical Engineering compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
96th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 96% of majors
64th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 64% of majors
55th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 55% of majors
Top occupations
- Chemical Engineers
- Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Chemical Engineering.
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Chemical Engineering, Other
- Engineering Chemistry
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology