What Does a Wonderlic Score of 30 Mean?

A raw score of 30 puts you at the 92nd percentile — in the top 10% of Wonderlic test-takers and in range for technical and engineering roles.

Where 30 falls on the distribution

A 30 clears 90% of Wonderlic test-takers. Only about 8% of the population reaches this score. This is the band where technical and engineering employers typically cluster their thresholds, since the test's mathematical and logical reasoning items separate candidates here.

Roles where a 30 is competitive

Role fit: In range for specialized and leadership roles: management consulting, attorney, executive, physician.

Wonderlic's published occupational data lists the average score for engineers at exactly 30. A 30 is right at that role's central tendency.

Engineering, programming, finance, and accounting hiring typically cluster their cut-scores around this band. The published occupational averages for engineers and analysts sit between 30 and 32.

What a few extra points buys you

If you went from 30 to 33 after a week or two of focused practice, your percentile would shift from 92nd to 96th — a 4-point percentile gain from a 3-point raw gain. The Wonderlic's distribution is steep through the middle, so each raw point in the 20s and 30s does meaningful percentile work.

Source: percentiles on this page are interpolated from the anchors in the official Wonderlic Personnel Test sample report (©Wonderlic Inc. 2018), which prints "Score 31 / Percentile in Total Population 94 / IQ Equivalent 121". Remaining anchors follow the commonly cited Wonderlic population norms (mean ≈ 20–21, SD ≈ 7) on the 1992 normative sample of N=118,549. Occupational averages cited above are from Wonderlic's own published occupational data.