Mechanical Engineering
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Early Career Income
$110,611
Lifetime Income
$5.79M
Unemployment rate
1.7%
Female share
11.2%
Occupation concentration
55.6%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
21.2%
% who double-major
5.9%
BA Graduates from 2024
33,580
-1.4% vs 2023
How Mechanical Engineering compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
91st
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 91% of majors
87th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 87% of majors
73rd
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 73% of majors
Top occupations
- Mechanical 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 Mechanical Engineering.
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology