Industrial Engineers

Moderate Risk
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
55%
(Moderate Risk)
POLLING
37%
(Low Risk, Based on 413 votes)
Average: 46%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
12.2%
by year 2033
WAGES
$99,380
or $47.77 per hour
Volume
332,870
as of 2023
SUMMARY
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JOB SCORE
7.3/10
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We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

55% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

  • Social Perceptiveness

User poll

37% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. However, the automation risk level we have generated suggests a higher chance of automation: 55% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Industrial Engineers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Very fast growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Industrial Engineers' job openings is expected to rise 12.2% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Industrial Engineers' was 99.380 $, or 48 $ per hour

'Industrial Engineers' were paid 106.8% higher than the national median wage, which stood at 48.060 $

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 332,870 people employed as 'Industrial Engineers' within the United States.

This represents around 0.22% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 456 people are employed as 'Industrial Engineers'.

Job description

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.

SOC Code: 17-2112.00

Comments (10)

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Lenin Castro (Highly likely)
23 Sep 2025 19:19
Industrial Engineer use methodologies that a IA could learn.
WELIVER DE LOS SANTOS (Low)
11 Mar 2024 02:10
Industrial engineers perform management and personnel handling functions that require interaction with staff, and are not repetitive or linear enough for robots to perform them.
Richard Crosss (Moderate)
06 Mar 2024 19:08
IE's often are required to do mundane, repetitive tasks that can be easily automated by AI. AI will also supplement the analysis process allowing IE's to focus on driving continuous improvement instead of wasting time collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data. AI will also also supplement IE's designing and optimizing production systems by analyzing large amounts of data and leveraging standard IE methods to optimize the recommendations that IE's provide to influence the design and business decisions prior to building or installing new equipment and/or processes.
Unbiased (Low)
15 Feb 2023 21:27
Industrial Engineers are one of the most flexible engineers in the engineering field. Because Industrial Engineers are reckoned for their social skills (which is unlikely to be automated soon) compared to other engineering fields they end up in top management.
Far (Uncertain)
30 Dec 2022 12:56
Since we're heading towards significant automation of operational activities, it's likely that the risk of errors or the potential for improvement will be limited. Therefore, industrial engineers might find it challenging to work.
Ahmed (No chance)
10 Jul 2022 20:15
As an industrial engineer, I have seen a lot of software fail to do our job. Of course, AI helps us a lot, but nowadays the world changes every minute.

The constraints or the requirements of industrial engineering cannot be fulfilled by AI at all.
CK
08 Jul 2021 03:45
IEs are the ones who will be automating production using Machine Learning and AI
ken wang (Moderate)
04 Dec 2019 12:17
IE is a technical oriented job, there are standarlize module of those work. So, AI can collect data and use same module to get the job done
Justin Williams
21 Sep 2022 16:05
You clearly lack some information on what industrial engineers do
Dusty
03 Mar 2024 17:05
lol, I hope it is not replaced I am a freshman IE major, and I am writing my comp II project on AI automation of the workforce. (I am using this as one of my sources). This field of work with others like HR and Accounting will have some automation but overall I think we are safe. Better than majoring in English or History.
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