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Civil Engineers
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.
What a civil engineer does
Become a civil engineer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good civil engineer
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $48 per hour with an average salary of $98,800 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $37 and $56 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $77,900 and $116,300 per year.
Civil Engineer job outlook
- There are 13,980 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 1,251 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.