Civil Engineer Salary in Louisiana (2026)

Worth knowing: Louisiana's substantial coastal levee + flood protection + Mississippi River civil engineering market is one of the country's most distinctive concentrated US infrastructure engineering anchors and a feature most national CE surveys understate for LA. The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New Orleans District (one of the largest US USACE districts by program value + the substantial post-Katrina + post-Ida + post-Laura + post-Delta + post-Zeta flood protection + Mississippi River + Atchafalaya + Bonnet Carré Spillway + Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System ~$15B+ post-Katrina program) supports substantial LA federal civilian + contractor civil + structural + geotechnical + coastal + hydraulic engineering work. Senior USACE GS-13/14 federal civilian engineers clear $108-155K + clearance + locality premiums. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) + the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan (~$50B+ multi-decade LA coastal restoration program funded substantially by post-Deepwater Horizon BP settlement RESTORE Act revenue + GOMESA + federal infrastructure investment) supports substantial LA coastal civil engineering + marsh creation + barrier island restoration + Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion + Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion programs. The LA LNG + petrochemical corridor (~$80B+ cumulative LNG capex + ~150 Cancer Alley facilities + ongoing capex) supports substantial site development + foundation + heavy civil engineering work. The Port of South Louisiana + Port of New Orleans + Port of Baton Rouge + Port Fourchon supports substantial marine + dredging + terminal civil engineering work. LA DOTD I-10 + I-12 + I-20 + I-49 + Calcasieu River Bridge replacement (~$2.1B mega-project under construction) supports substantial LA highway + bridge civil engineering. LA's flat 3% (post-2024 Act 11) + LA RTW since 1976 + no state estate tax (repealed 2008) + LA Citizens hurricane premium offset anchor the LA civil engineer proposition.