Electronics Engineers, Except Computer salary

SOC 17-2072 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$130,220

per year, nationally

Middle half

$101,680–$167,670

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

96,900

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+6.2%

5,700 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$81,840$206,960

10th: $81,840
25th: $101,680
Median: $130,220
75th: $167,670
90th: $206,960

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where electronics engineers, except computer earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	California	$160,520	110.7	20,830	1.84×
2	New Jersey	$158,730	108.8	1,820	0.68×
3	District of Columbia	$157,040	109.9	400	0.92×
4	Maryland	$155,650	105.0	3,390	1.97×
5	Massachusetts	$138,230	105.8	5,910	2.61×
6	New Mexico	$136,990	92.2	1,110	2.05×
7	Rhode Island	$136,360	102.3	970	3.10×
8	Texas	$132,220	97.1	9,520	1.09×
9	Washington	$130,270	107.0	1,950	0.88×
10	Illinois	$129,390	100.0	960	0.25×
11	Utah	$128,430	98.9	1,570	1.45×
12	Maine	$127,490	97.0	—	—
13	Michigan	$127,200	96.2	2,960	1.08×
14	Colorado	$127,010	103.1	6,080	3.39×
15	Hawaii	$126,690	110.0	310	0.80×
16	Oregon	$124,400	103.4	1,730	1.42×
17	Georgia	$123,010	96.3	2,630	0.86×
18	Tennessee	$122,920	91.9	740	0.36×
19	Pennsylvania	$121,260	97.6	1,440	0.38×
20	Alabama	$120,720	88.8	1,940	1.47×
21	West Virginia	$120,170	89.5	90	0.20×
22	Virginia	$119,990	101.1	3,280	1.28×
23	New York	$119,180	107.9	2,220	0.37×
24	Ohio	$118,830	92.8	3,240	0.94×
25	Arizona	$118,120	100.7	2,100	1.04×
26	Missouri	$117,630	90.8	740	0.41×
27	Florida	$116,860	103.4	5,280	0.85×
28	Nevada	$116,180	100.0	360	0.37×
29	North Carolina	$115,920	94.3	2,090	0.68×
30	South Carolina	$113,720	93.7	1,030	0.72×
31	Mississippi	$112,400	87.0	160	0.22×
32	Minnesota	$112,390	98.6	1,200	0.66×
33	Indiana	$112,200	93.3	1,420	0.71×
34	Arkansas	$109,830	86.9	150	0.19×
35	Oklahoma	$109,120	87.8	1,410	1.32×
36	Alaska	$106,810	102.4	180	0.89×
37	Connecticut	$106,040	103.6	1,130	1.07×
38	New Hampshire	$105,190	104.2	320	0.76×
39	North Dakota	$104,860	89.0	50	0.17×
40	Kansas	$103,740	90.1	770	0.86×
41	Idaho	$102,770	95.5	500	0.93×
42	Kentucky	$101,860	90.2	860	0.69×
43	Louisiana	$100,390	88.2	450	0.37×
44	Wyoming	$95,910	92.7	110	0.64×
45	Wisconsin	$93,710	94.1	360	0.19×
46	Montana	$93,380	94.6	140	0.43×
47	Nebraska	$91,140	90.1	250	0.39×
48	Vermont	$86,180	98.0	70	0.38×
49	South Dakota	$84,150	88.6	190	0.68×
50	Iowa	$81,330	87.8	350	0.36×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where electronics engineers, except computer wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for electronics engineers, except computer

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$194,370	110.4	5,970	8.45×
2	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$182,840	109.9	30	0.53×
3	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$172,290	107.8	290	2.25×
4	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$162,960	98.1	1,960	2.43×
5	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$162,800	98.2	510	1.11×
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$162,440	115.6	2,000	1.35×
7	Lexington Park, MD	$156,750	100.8	580	13.17×
8	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$156,520	104.5	1,880	2.22×
9	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$156,480	111.9	3,450	3.60×
10	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$155,680	97.6	290	1.36×
11	Albuquerque, NM	$153,900	95.5	500	1.97×
12	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$147,180	110.5	830	4.12×
13	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$144,930	112.6	2,300	0.39×
14	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$142,920	108.3	5,460	3.24×
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$142,460	106.7	900	1.33×
16	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$141,720	106.9	90	0.36×
17	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$140,530	113.6	4,880	1.25×
18	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$140,000	108.9	2,690	1.37×
19	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$138,890	111.1	1,350	1.04×
20	Ann Arbor, MI	$136,560	100.9	130	0.96×
21	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$135,810	108.8	160	1.28×
22	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$135,710	103.2	60	0.41×
23	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$135,410	101.0	450	1.85×
24	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$135,350	100.1	1,400	0.78×
25	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$135,150	103.1	4,200	1.66×
26	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$135,000	92.7	1,040	4.50×
27	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$133,390	101.4	1,040	1.18×
28	Utica-Rome, NY	$133,370	92.7	140	1.94×
29	Huntsville, AL	$133,330	93.1	890	5.38×
30	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$132,870	101.8	1,080	2.43×
31	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$132,750	102.7	110	0.30×
32	Boulder, CO	$132,230	105.2	590	4.90×
33	Midland, TX	$132,060	95.8	30	0.46×
34	Bloomington, IL	$131,260	93.5	—	—
35	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$131,160	94.7	580	0.82×
36	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$131,090	102.6	670	0.37×
37	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$130,940	106.4	580	0.54×
38	College Station-Bryan, TX	$130,820	91.0	50	0.59×
39	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$130,530	101.1	310	2.95×
40	Vallejo, CA	$129,850	108.5	30	0.35×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where electronics engineers, except computer wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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