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title: "Space Jobs"
description: "Careers in the space industry: aerospace and spacecraft engineers, mission operations, astronomers and planetary scientists, and the technicians who…"
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last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Space Jobs

Careers in the space industry: aerospace and spacecraft engineers, mission operations, astronomers and planetary scientists, and the technicians who build launch hardware. Careers centred on this field come first, then the ones that touch it, each group ranked by national median pay from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Specialty careers, which BLS reports inside a broader occupation, show that occupation’s figures and are labelled on their pages.

23 occupations, in the ranked order the career bank computed. Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth figures are BLS Employment Projections and education is the BLS "typical education needed for entry".

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected growth | Typical education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Astrodynamics Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/astrodynamics-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Astronaut](https://nuecareer.com/careers/astronaut) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Master's |
| 3 | [Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/guidance-navigation-and-control-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Launch Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/launch-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Rocket Propulsion Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/rocket-propulsion-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Spacecraft Flight Controller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/spacecraft-flight-controller) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Spacecraft Systems Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/spacecraft-systems-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Spacecraft Thermal Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/spacecraft-thermal-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Satellite Communications Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/satellite-communications-engineer) | $130,220 | +3.7% | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Astronomer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/astronomer) | $128,820 | +7.8% | Doctorate |
| 11 | [Planetary Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/planetary-scientist) | $101,920 | +5.1% | Doctorate |
| 12 | [Space Weather Forecaster](https://nuecareer.com/careers/space-weather-forecaster) | $99,070 | +2.6% | Bachelor's |
| 13 | [Astrobiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/astrobiologist) | $98,920 | +4.7% | Doctorate |
| 14 | [Propulsion Test Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/propulsion-test-technician) | $82,890 | +11.9% | Associate's |
| 15 | [Space Domain Awareness Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/space-domain-awareness-analyst) | $82,890 | +11.9% | Associate's |
| 16 | [Aerospace Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aerospace-medicine-physician) | $265,930 | +3.4% | Doctorate |
| 17 | [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist) | $172,250 | +7.2% | Doctorate |
| 18 | [Aerospace Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aerospace-engineer) | $134,960 | +8.3% | Bachelor's |
| 19 | [FPGA Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/fpga-engineer) | $130,220 | +3.7% | Bachelor's |
| 20 | [Additive Manufacturing Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/additive-manufacturing-engineer) | $102,440 | +12.4% | Bachelor's |
| 21 | [Atmospheric and Space Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/atmospheric-and-space-scientist) | $99,070 | +2.6% | Bachelor's |
| 22 | [Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aerospace-engineering-and-operations-technologist-and-technician) | $82,890 | +11.9% | Associate's |
| 23 | [Aerospace Composite Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aerospace-composite-technician) | $46,880 | +4.6% | High school |

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology

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