What Does a Wonderlic Score of 33 Mean?

A raw score of 33 puts you at the 96th percentile — the top 5% of all Wonderlic test-takers.

Where 33 falls on the distribution

33 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 4 in 100 reach this point. This is well above the published averages for nearly every occupational category Wonderlic publishes data on.

Roles where a 33 is competitive

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

For context: Wonderlic's published occupational data lists the average score for systems analysts at 32. Your 33 is 1 point above that role's average.

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 33 to 34 after a week or two of focused practice, your percentile would shift from 96th to 97th — 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.