Electrical Engineering
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Early Career Income
$122,553
Lifetime Income
$6.09M
Unemployment rate
2.2%
Female share
14.3%
Occupation concentration
55.8%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
30.0%
% who double-major
10.5%
BA Graduates from 2024
15,609
-3.0% vs 2023
How Electrical Engineering compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
94th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 94% of majors
69th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 69% of majors
74th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 74% of majors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
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 Electrical Engineering.
- Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Laser and Optical Engineering
- Telecommunications Engineering
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering, Other
- Electromechanical Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology