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Environmental Engineers
Research, design, plan, or perform engineering duties in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental hazards using various engineering disciplines. Work may include waste treatment, site remediation, or pollution control technology.
What an environmental engineer does
Become an environmental engineer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good environmental engineer
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $52 per hour with an average salary of $107,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $40 and $60 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $82,400 and $125,200 per year.
Environmental Engineer job outlook
- There are 1,686 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 230 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.