Of the 2,310 civil engineering professionals employed in West Virginia, 420 work in Bluefield. There has been a 2% growth in the number of civil engineering professionals in Bluefield between the years 2006 and 2010. As the number of civil engineering professionals in Bluefield has increased, overall employment in Bluefield has also increased.

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In Bluefield, salaries for civil engineering professionals have increased. Bluefield civil engineering professionals made $48,337 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, civil engineering professionals in Bluefield made an average salary of $45,595 per year. The growth in the salary of civil engineering professionals in Bluefield is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Civil engineering professionals make a median salary of $47,387 per year in Bluefield. The difference in pay between the civil engineering professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 107%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $32,477 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $67,120 per year.

On average civil engineering professional salaries in Bluefield are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Bluefield's civil engineering professionals are graduates of the only accredited civil engineering school in the city.

Bluefield's civil engineering schools offer 2 civil engineering degree and certificate programs.

Approximately 14 students graduated from civil engineering courses in 2010.