What Does a Wonderlic Score of 32 Mean?

A raw score of 32 puts you at the 95th percentile — the top 5% of all Wonderlic test-takers.

Where 32 falls on the distribution

32 puts you in the top 5% of the Wonderlic distribution. On the WPT-R's normative sample of roughly 118,000 test-takers, only about 5 in 100 reach this point. This is well above the published averages for nearly every occupational category Wonderlic publishes data on.

Roles where a 32 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 systems analysts at exactly 32. A 32 is right at that role's central tendency.

This score clears Wonderlic's published occupational averages for nearly every category, including systems analysts (~32) and engineers (~30). Specialised and leadership hiring — consulting, law, executive — often targets this band or higher.

What a few extra points buys you

If you went from 32 to 33 after a week or two of focused practice, your percentile would shift from 95th to 96th — a 1-point percentile gain from a 1-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.