Average Salary

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One of the most popular questions we get from our readers here is how much do Biomedical Engineers make per year and their hourly wage.

Starting Salary

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Entry-level Biomedical Engineers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $51890 to $67830 per year or $25 to $33 per hour.

Just like any other job, the salary of a Biomedical Engineer will increase as they become more experienced.

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Salary Rank

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of a Biomedical Engineer to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compare the salary of all careers then we give them a rank of A, B, C or D depending on where their average salary sits in comparison to other careers.

After comparing how much do Biomedical Engineers make with other careers, they have a salary rank of A.

Salary range

Level	Hourly	Yearly
Highest (Top 10%)	$69	$144350
Senior (Top 25%)	$55	$114930
Middle (Mid 50%)	$43	$88550
Junior (Bottom 25%)	$33	$67830
No experience (Bottom 10%)	$25	$51890

Highest paying states

State	Hourly	Annual
MN	$ 55	$ 114,380
NJ	$ 54	$ 113,140
MA	$ 51	$ 105,580
AZ	$ 50	$ 103,650
CT	$ 50	$ 102,970
NY	$ 49	$ 101,460
CA	$ 49	$ 101,210
TX	$ 48	$ 100,680
MD	$ 48	$ 100,200
IL	$ 47	$ 98,420

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Biomedical Engineer is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like MN doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at MN might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Biomedical Engineers are in the states of MN, NJ, MA, AZ and CT.

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http://www.bls.gov/OOH/architecture-and-engineering/biomedical-engineers.htm

http://www.bmes.org/

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