BEA's 2024 all-items price index for Lawrence, KS was 90.2, or 9.8% below the national price level. Its housing index was 71.6.
National-price-dollar proxy
Not available
WageScope divides the published Industrial Engineers median by the BEA all-items index. This is a price-level comparison, not take-home pay, a personal budget, or a quality-of-life score.
Use the local pay range, same-source bench marks, job scale, price level, and survey care marks as separate facts. This guide stays tied to SOC 17-2112 and BLS area 29940.
Questions, answered
Industrial Engineers pay in Lawrence, KS: common questions
What is the median wage for Industrial Engineers in Lawrence, KS?
BLS did not publish a median for Industrial Engineers in Lawrence, KS in the May 2025 OEWS release. WageScope does not substitute or infer the missing wage.
Is Industrial Engineers pay higher in Lawrence, KS than nationally?
BLS did not publish the same median metric needed to compare Lawrence, KS with the United States.
Does the wage estimate adjust for cost of living in Lawrence, KS?
No wage price proxy is available because BLS did not publish an exact local median. A top-coded bound is not an exact wage input. A BEA price index, when available, describes prices separately and cannot fill that wage gap.
How many Industrial Engineers jobs does BLS estimate in Lawrence, KS?
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What the Industrial Engineers median says in Lawrence, KS
BLS did not publish an exact median for Industrial Engineers in Lawrence, KS in the May 2025 OEWS release. The source display is Not published. WageScope does not borrow the U.S. wage, use a nearby place, or turn this gap into zero. The row stays tied to SOC 17-2112 and BLS area 29940.
BLS lists 100 wage and salary jobs for this exact role-place row. That is a survey estimate, not a count of open posts. The mean display is Not published. A mean and a median are separate fields; one does not fill a gap in the other.
A local-to-national median gap cannot be computed from this row. The national source belongs to the United States and does not become Lawrence, KS's wage. Any published percentile or job-count field below keeps its own scope, period, and source key.
This page exists because the BLS artifact has one row for SOC 17-2112 and area 29940. SOC 17-2112 names Industrial Engineers. Area 29940 names Lawrence, KS. Both keys must match before WageScope can show or index this answer.
The 17-2112/29940 row reports 100 wage and salary jobs, 2.02 jobs per 1,000 local jobs, and a 0.86 location quotient. Each value stays under the same two source keys.
For 17-2112/29940, the annual median is Not published, while the matching mean is Not published. The row is published with annual and hourly fields. WageScope does not switch units to fill a blank.
17-2112/29940 10th percentile: Not published.
17-2112/29940 25th percentile: Not published.
17-2112/29940 median: Not published.
17-2112/29940 75th percentile: Not published.
17-2112/29940 90th percentile: Not published.
17-2112/29940 employment RSE: 8%. Mean-wage RSE: Not published.
17-2112/29940 suppression marks: annualMean: not available, annualMedian: not available, annualP10: not available, annualP25: not available, annualP75: not available, annualP90: not available, hourlyMean: not available, hourlyMedian: not available, hourlyP10: not available, hourlyP25: not available, hourlyP75: not available, hourlyP90: not available, meanRse: not available.
BLS area 29940 facts behind this Industrial Engineers page
Area 29940 reports 51,750 wage and salary jobs across all covered occupations. Its annual mean is $60,950. Its annual median is $47,390. The employment RSE is 0%. The mean-wage RSE is 0.5%. These are facts for the whole area. They do not replace the 17-2112 row.
The all-jobs wage ladder in Lawrence, KS runs from $28,140 at the 10th percentile to $107,050 at the 90th percentile. The 25th percentile is $34,790. The median is $47,390. The 75th percentile is $70,820. This is a place check, not a pay range for Industrial Engineers.
The source rows below are the six largest detailed roles in the bounded area file. Each keeps its own SOC code. They help a reader spot-check area 29940. They do not show related skills or a path into Industrial Engineers.
1. Area 29940, SOC 35-3023, Fast Food and Counter Workers: 2,880 jobs, $28,320 annual median, 55.69 jobs per 1,000, and 2.25 location quotient.
2. Area 29940, SOC 41-2031, Retail Salespersons: 1,430 jobs, $31,320 annual median, 27.68 jobs per 1,000, and 1.1 location quotient.
3. Area 29940, SOC 41-2011, Cashiers: 1,310 jobs, $29,270 annual median, 25.25 jobs per 1,000, and 1.27 location quotient.
Pay range
Read the Lawrence, KS wage ladder for Industrial Engineers
The 10th percentile is Not published. The 25th percentile is Not published. The median is Not published. The 75th percentile is Not published. The 90th percentile is Not published.
A percentile is a rank point, not a career stage. The 10th percentile does not mean new-worker pay. The 90th percentile does not mean a wage that comes after a set number of years. The points show how the wage values spread in the source. They do not say why one job sits at one point.
The middle half runs from Not published to Not published. The 10th-to-90th span is not available. Use the full ladder when a job post sits far from the median.
Lawrence, KS has a annual median of Not published. Kansas has $99,830 per year. The U.S. row has $102,440 per year. WageScope keeps annual and hourly values apart.
Lawrence, KS cannot be compared with Kansas on the same published median. WageScope leaves that gap open. Lawrence, KS cannot be compared with the United States on the same published median. WageScope leaves that gap open. A gap can reflect many things that are not in this row. WageScope reports the gap but does not name a cause.
The state and U.S. rows are bench marks, not replacements. They do not fill missing local facts. A state can hold many local labor markets. A national row can hold many states. Read the local row first, then use the broader rows to see scale.
Lawrence, KS has no exact published median that can enter this Industrial Engineers pay rank. WageScope leaves the rank open. It does not treat a missing or top-coded value as an exact amount, and it does not place this row at the bottom of a list.
Other metro areas may have exact medians in the same release. Those rows can be read on their own pages. They cannot establish a wage or a nearest wage neighbor for Lawrence, KS without the missing local field.
Employment and local share remain separate source fields for SOC 17-2112. Neither field is a substitute for median pay. A job count does not say where a wage would rank, and a share measure does not set a pay floor or ceiling.
Where Industrial Engineers medians lead among metro areas
The rows below use the same SOC 17-2112, the same annual median, the same May 2025 BLS release, and the same metro map type. Anchorage, AK has the highest published median in this set, at $171,910 per year. Lawrence, KS sits at Not published.
A pay lead is one fact. It does not show the size of the job base. It does not show how common Industrial Engineers is in the local mix. It also does not add local prices. The bullets keep the median, job count, and location quotient together so a high wage is not read as a full market score.
Use this list to choose a deeper pair, not to choose a place. Open the two local pages. Check the full wage ladder, the job scale, the survey care marks, and the exact BEA price row when present. A missing median stays out of this rank instead of becoming zero.
1. Anchorage, AK has a Industrial Engineers median of $171,910 per year, or not available. BLS lists 110 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.27.
2. Charleston, WV has a Industrial Engineers median of $143,860 per year, or not available. BLS lists 160 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.65.
3. Midland, TX has a Industrial Engineers median of $141,120 per year, or not available. BLS lists 320 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 1.11.
Job-base leaders
Where BLS counts the most Industrial Engineers jobs
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI has the largest published metro job estimate for Industrial Engineers in this same-source set, at 17,350 jobs. Lawrence, KS has 100. The count shows covered job scale, not open posts.
A large job base can have a lower median than a smaller one. It can also have a location quotient near or below 1. That is why WageScope does not blend job count, pay, and local share. Each field keeps its name and unit. The rows below let you compare all three without making one score.
Current MeritLog listings can add a dated view of employer-title matches. They do not change this May 2025 order. A place with few current cards can still have a large BLS job estimate. A place with several cards can still have a smaller estimate. The sources use different clocks and scopes.
1. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI has 17,350 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 17,250 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $104,110 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 3.87.
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI has 13,970 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 13,870 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $104,730 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 3.04.
Local-share leaders
Where Industrial Engineers takes the largest share of local jobs
Columbus, IN has the highest published location quotient in this metro set, at 7.76. Lawrence, KS has 0.86. A value above 1 means the role's local job share is larger than its national share.
A high quotient can come from a small local job base. It does not prove more jobs, more posts, faster growth, or higher pay. The bullets keep each quotient beside its BLS job count and median. This lets a reader see when the three measures point in different ways.
Use this list to ask where Industrial Engineers is a large part of the local mix. Use the employment list to ask where BLS counts the most jobs. Use the pay list to ask where the median is highest. None of those lists decides where a person should work.
1. Columbus, IN has a location quotient of 7.76, a gap of 6.90 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 910 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $97,480 per year, or not available.
2. Kalamazoo-Portage, MI has a location quotient of 4.34, a gap of 3.48 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 1,240 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $97,250 per year, or not available.
3. Sheboygan, WI has a location quotient of 3.95, a gap of 3.09 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 560 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $94,170 per year, or not available.
Job scale and share
How common Industrial Engineers is in Lawrence, KS
BLS lists 100 Industrial Engineers jobs in Lawrence, KS. It also lists 2.02 jobs per 1,000 local jobs. Jobs per 1,000 turns the count into a rate. It helps compare places of different size. It does not show open posts or hiring speed.
The location quotient is 0.86. A value of 1 means Industrial Engineers has the same share of local jobs as it has across the nation. This row is lower than 1. The quotient is a share check, not a wage or a growth measure.
Read the three values as separate facts. Employment asks how many covered jobs BLS estimated. Jobs per 1,000 asks how much of the local job base the role takes. Location quotient asks how that share compares with the national share. None of them tells you how many posts are open today.
Industrial Engineers beside other roles in Lawrence, KS
The all-occupations median in Lawrence, KS is $47,390 per year. It covers the full local job mix and does not replace the missing exact Industrial Engineers median. WageScope cannot calculate a same-unit wage gap from the role to that broader row.
No nearest-pay role list is shown for this row. Such a list needs an exact local median in the same wage unit. A title, employment count, or national wage cannot supply that missing input.
Other roles in Lawrence, KS still have their own source pages. Use those pages for their own official estimates, with each SOC code and period intact. Do not infer common tasks, skills, career paths, or pay for Industrial Engineers from another role's number.
Fast Food and Counter Workers is the largest detailed occupation in the bounded Lawrence, KS table, at 2,880 jobs. Industrial Engineers has 100 jobs in its exact role-place row. The two counts show where this role sits beside other large parts of the local job base.
The all-occupations job count is 51,750. The detailed list below is only a bounded view of that larger mix. It does not sum to every local job. It does not include a blank role as zero. It helps explain why one role's wage and job count should not stand in for the whole area.
A large role can have a lower median. A smaller role can have a higher one. Job count does not show current posts, job quality, or growth. Use the list to see local scale. Then keep Industrial Engineers's own median, spread, and share in their own fields.
1. Fast Food and Counter Workers has 2,880 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 2,780 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $28,320 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 2.25.
2. Retail Salespersons has 1,430 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1,330 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $31,320 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.1.
3. Cashiers has 1,310 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1,210 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $29,270 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.27.
Area pay mix
Published role medians around Lawrence, KS
Education Administrators, Postsecondary has the highest published median in the bounded Lawrence, KS role table, at $140,710 per year. Industrial Engineers has Not published. This puts the role beside a local pay range without blending the source rows.
The local all-occupations median is $47,390 per year. A role above that mark is not better. A role below it is not worse. The mark only shows where the role's published median sits against the full covered job mix. Job tasks, level, hours, and work setting are separate facts.
The bullets keep each SOC title, job count, median, and local share together. Use them to find a role page worth opening. Do not use a close median as proof that two roles share skills or that one is a path to the other.
1. Education Administrators, Postsecondary has a median of $140,710 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 420 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 6.94.
2. Software Developers has a median of $104,990 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 410 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 0.74.
3. General and Operations Managers has a median of $85,110 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 850 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 0.73.
Area role shares
Roles with the largest local share in Lawrence, KS
Printing Press Operators has the highest location quotient in the bounded Lawrence, KS role table, at 10.34. Industrial Engineers has 0.86. Both values compare a local job share with the matching national share.
A quotient above 1 means the role takes a larger share of local jobs than it does across the nation. It does not mean more jobs than every other role. It does not mean open posts, growth, or high pay. The job count and median beside each row answer those other narrow questions.
The local role-share mix can differ a lot from the pay mix. Read both lists. Then compare Industrial Engineers with the same SOC code in another place. This keeps a broad area pattern from replacing the exact role-place row.
1. Printing Press Operators has a location quotient of 10.34 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 9.48 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 500 jobs and a median of $41,890 per year, or not available.
2. Education Administrators, Postsecondary has a location quotient of 6.94 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 6.08 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 420 jobs and a median of $140,710 per year, or not available.
3. Fast Food and Counter Workers has a location quotient of 2.25 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1.39 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 2,880 jobs and a median of $28,320 per year, or not available.
Price-level view
Why a wage price proxy is unavailable in Lawrence, KS
No national-price-dollar wage proxy is available for Industrial Engineers in Lawrence, KS because BLS did not publish the exact median needed for that math. A missing or top-coded median is not zero and is not an exact wage input.
BEA separately published a 2024 all-items price index of 90.2 for Lawrence, KS. The U.S. level is 100. This source can describe broad local prices, but it cannot supply the missing BLS wage for SOC 17-2112.
A price-level wage calculation needs a published wage in the correct unit and an exact reviewed price-area match. Until both inputs exist, WageScope leaves that answer open. Published employment, source dates, and wage-status fields remain useful on their own without an inferred spending-power claim.
The employment RSE for this Industrial Engineers row is 8%. The mean-wage RSE is Not published. RSE means relative standard error. It is a survey precision flag. A smaller value often means less sampling uncertainty. It is not the chance that one person's pay is right or wrong.
The employment RSE belongs to the 100 job estimate. The mean-wage RSE belongs to the Not published mean. BLS does not give the same RSE field for the median or every percentile. WageScope does not move an RSE from one field to another.
A local row can change in a new release. A small role-place sample can also have more survey uncertainty than a broad national row. Keep the May 2025 date next to the value. Do not mix a newer job post with the BLS date as if both facts came from one clock.
The job block looks for strict employer-title matches to Industrial Engineers. It uses a Lawrence, KS place filter only when the public place list has an exact approved match. If that match is not safe, the page says the jobs are not narrowed to this place. A false negative is safer than showing a different role.
Each card keeps its employer, place, source, and seen date. Listings can change between visits while the survey figures stay tied to their release date. A listing range does not replace the Not published BLS median. The listing and survey answer different questions.
Open one listing. Check its level, work place, pay range, and needs. Then tailor with work facts you can support. Do not turn a wage, job count, rank, or price proxy into a résumé claim. The public page is read only. It does not save a job or start a draft on load.
What the Industrial Engineers row for Lawrence, KS does not claim
The row does not say what one person earns. It does not promise a job, offer, raise, or move result. It does not say why the local median differs from the U.S. row. It does not add tips, bonus pay, stock, benefits, taxes, or work hours unless those items are in the BLS wage measure.
The 100 job estimate is not a live opening count. The location quotient of 0.86 is not a growth score. The unranked row is not a place score. The 90.2 price index is not a personal budget.
Use the row for one clear task. Read the May 2025 wage spread for SOC 17-2112 in BLS area 29940. Compare the same metric with the state and U.S. rows. Add the separate 2024 price level when present. Inspect a dated job match. Then use confirmed work facts for a résumé.
BLS published an employment estimate of 100 wage and salary jobs for this exact row. It is a survey estimate, not a current opening count or forecast.
Are the current job listings included in the BLS wage calculation?
No. MeritLog shows eligible live public-catalog listings separately, with their own source and observation date. Posted pay never changes the official BLS distribution.
4. Area 29940, SOC 43-6014, Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive: 1,230 jobs, $42,630 annual median, 23.71 jobs per 1,000, and 2.16 location quotient.
5. Area 29940, SOC 35-3031, Waiters and Waitresses: 1,190 jobs, $37,230 annual median, 23.01 jobs per 1,000, and 1.58 location quotient.
6. Area 29940, SOC 43-4051, Customer Service Representatives: 1,090 jobs, $37,800 annual median, 21 jobs per 1,000, and 1.26 location quotient.
4. Lexington Park, MD has a Industrial Engineers median of $139,600 per year, or not available. BLS lists 160 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.98.
5. Billings, MT has a Industrial Engineers median of $139,420 per year, or not available. BLS lists 110 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.48.
6. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA has a Industrial Engineers median of $136,950 per year, or not available. BLS lists 4,800 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 1.8.
7. Albuquerque, NM has a Industrial Engineers median of $132,290 per year, or not available. BLS lists 820 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.86.
8. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA has a Industrial Engineers median of $132,230 per year, or not available. BLS lists 5,470 jobs there, compared with 100 in Lawrence, KS. The location quotient is 0.98.
3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN has 12,750 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 12,650 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $101,760 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.2.
4. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA has 11,460 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 11,360 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $113,040 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.78.
5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX has 10,680 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 10,580 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $105,640 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.12.
6. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has 9,010 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 8,910 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $118,970 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.42.
7. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX has 8,620 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 8,520 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $111,690 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.11.
8. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has 8,540 estimated Industrial Engineers jobs, a gap of 8,440 jobs from Lawrence, KS. Its median is $105,840 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.38.
4. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI has a location quotient of 3.87, a gap of 3.01 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 17,350 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $104,110 per year, or not available.
5. Peoria, IL has a location quotient of 3.85, a gap of 2.99 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 1,500 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $117,180 per year, or not available.
6. Decatur, AL has a location quotient of 3.65, a gap of 2.79 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 530 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $106,230 per year, or not available.
7. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL has a location quotient of 3.52, a gap of 2.66 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 2,030 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $101,610 per year, or not available.
8. Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI has a location quotient of 3.12, a gap of 2.26 from Lawrence, KS. BLS lists 560 Industrial Engineers jobs and a median of $86,000 per year, or not available.
4. Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive has 1,230 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1,130 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $42,630 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 2.16.
5. Waiters and Waitresses has 1,190 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1,090 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $37,230 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.58.
6. Customer Service Representatives has 1,090 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 990 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $37,800 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.26.
7. Stockers and Order Fillers has 950 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 850 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $36,340 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 1.01.
8. General and Operations Managers has 850 jobs in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 750 from Industrial Engineers. Its median is $85,110 per year, or not available. Its location quotient is 0.73.
4. Accountants and Auditors has a median of $79,050 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 400 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 0.82.
5. Registered Nurses has a median of $78,020 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 700 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 0.62.
6. Business Operations Specialists, All Other has a median of $72,100 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 410 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 1.12.
7. First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers has a median of $66,470 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 360 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 0.76.
8. Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education has a median of $62,080 per year in Lawrence, KS, or not available. BLS lists 370 jobs, compared with 100 for Industrial Engineers. Its location quotient is 1.04.
4. Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive has a location quotient of 2.16 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1.30 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 1,230 jobs and a median of $42,630 per year, or not available.
5. Bartenders has a location quotient of 1.86 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 1.00 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 470 jobs and a median of $29,980 per year, or not available.
6. Waiters and Waitresses has a location quotient of 1.58 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 0.72 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 1,190 jobs and a median of $37,230 per year, or not available.
7. Cooks, Restaurant has a location quotient of 1.47 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 0.61 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 690 jobs and a median of $35,140 per year, or not available.
8. First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers has a location quotient of 1.43 in Lawrence, KS, a gap of 0.57 from Industrial Engineers. BLS lists 580 jobs and a median of $38,440 per year, or not available.
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