$144,200
Industry can also determine top salaries. Chemical engineers earned a mean annual wage of $104,340 in May 2013. However, those working in the oil and gas extraction industries earned a mean annual salary of $158,320 during the same year. Chemical engineers in Baton Rouge can also look forward to a high median salary, $108,240, while still enjoying a low cost of living compared to most cities in the US. Top chemical engineering employers in the city include Albemarle, BASF, and ExxonMobil. NOTE: Median annual base salaries for chemists employed full-time as of March 1 of each year. Consumer Price Index rose 1.5% from March 2013 to March 2014 and an average of 2.3% annually from March 2004 to March 2014. Constant dollars are calculated using 2004 as the base year. The median salary of $120,000 represents a 9 percent hike since 2011, according to a report this month by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. And unemployment in the field dropped from 3.8 percent to 2.1 percent during the period. Chemical engineers in the Houston-Galveston area are especially well paid, with a median salary of $144,200. The median salary for chemical engineers for the state as a whole is $140,000, according to the survey. Chemical engineers' median salary has more than doubled since the first survey in 1992, when it was $59,700. Those working in the petroleum industry are the highest paid. Chemical engineers in the petroleum production and refining business pull a median salary of $150,000. Those in petrochemicals have a median of $140,000. First, chemical engineers in the Houston area get paid a sizable $118,000 per year on average. That's a full 30% more than the US median salary of $90,300 for chemical engineering professionals.
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