Engineers, All Other salary

SOC 17-2199 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$122,930

per year, nationally

Middle half

$90,970–$158,090

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

154,070

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+2.1%

9,300 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.

$66,810$189,950

10th: $66,810
25th: $90,970
Median: $122,930
75th: $158,090
90th: $189,950

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 engineers, all other 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	New Mexico	$162,070	92.2	2,190	2.54×
2	Alabama	$152,550	88.8	3,460	1.65×
3	District of Columbia	$151,920	109.9	3,560	5.12×
4	Virginia	$148,160	101.1	5,060	1.24×
5	Alaska	$142,390	102.4	200	0.61×
6	Washington	$134,570	107.0	3,580	1.02×
7	Colorado	$132,590	103.1	2,540	0.89×
8	New Jersey	$132,450	108.8	4,540	1.07×
9	Massachusetts	$131,260	105.8	2,850	0.79×
10	Idaho	$130,970	95.5	560	0.67×
11	California	$130,850	110.7	28,610	1.59×
12	Maryland	$129,770	105.0	7,340	2.68×
13	New Hampshire	$128,130	104.2	610	0.90×
14	Vermont	$126,550	98.0	390	1.29×
15	Connecticut	$124,110	103.6	2,430	1.44×
16	Oregon	$123,220	103.4	2,030	1.04×
17	Hawaii	$122,800	110.0	1,100	1.77×
18	Michigan	$121,000	96.2	7,700	1.77×
19	Indiana	$120,880	93.3	1,540	0.49×
20	Ohio	$120,470	92.8	7,000	1.27×
21	Maine	$120,430	97.0	590	0.93×
22	Oklahoma	$119,810	87.8	860	0.51×
23	West Virginia	$118,800	89.5	660	0.95×
24	New York	$117,600	107.9	5,760	0.60×
25	Rhode Island	$117,080	102.3	380	0.77×
26	Texas	$115,810	97.1	10,820	0.78×
27	Wyoming	$113,050	92.7	110	0.40×
28	North Carolina	$112,450	94.3	4,270	0.87×
29	Georgia	$112,260	96.3	4,120	0.85×
30	South Dakota	$112,260	88.6	110	0.23×
31	Illinois	$111,930	100.0	2,520	0.42×
32	Mississippi	$111,030	87.0	480	0.42×
33	South Carolina	$110,490	93.7	1,280	0.56×
34	Wisconsin	$110,360	94.1	690	0.24×
35	Utah	$110,320	98.9	1,750	1.02×
36	Pennsylvania	$108,950	97.6	3,250	0.54×
37	Minnesota	$108,850	98.6	1,290	0.44×
38	Florida	$105,410	103.4	8,600	0.87×
39	Nevada	$103,780	100.0	870	0.57×
40	Delaware	$103,580	99.8	—	—
41	Iowa	$103,090	87.8	1,100	0.71×
42	Missouri	$102,980	90.8	1,850	0.63×
43	Arizona	$102,280	100.7	1,720	0.54×
44	North Dakota	$100,250	89.0	220	0.52×
45	Kentucky	$99,830	90.2	500	0.25×
46	Louisiana	$99,070	88.2	6,310	3.29×
47	Montana	$97,470	94.6	240	0.47×
48	Tennessee	$96,640	91.9	4,400	1.36×
49	Nebraska	$88,490	90.1	300	0.29×
50	Arkansas	$76,940	86.9	820	0.63×
51	Kansas	$76,100	90.1	780	0.55×

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 engineers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for engineers, all other

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	$169,650	110.4	4,970	4.42×
2	Lexington Park, MD	$166,230	100.8	1,020	14.58×
3	Albuquerque, NM	$163,630	95.5	1,110	2.77×
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$159,800	115.6	4,850	2.06×
5	Huntsville, AL	$155,630	93.1	3,110	11.77×
6	Charlottesville, VA	$153,340	99.1	50	0.48×
7	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$151,760	98.9	230	1.39×
8	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$151,340	108.9	9,230	2.97×
9	Anchorage, AK	$145,500	105.4	90	0.50×
10	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$142,920	100.1	280	2.17×
11	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$142,130	105.6	440	4.78×
12	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$142,080	92.7	1,650	4.48×
13	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$141,150	109.9	150	1.57×
14	Greenville, NC	$140,970	88.4	40	0.47×
15	Bellingham, WA	$140,220	103.3	—	—
16	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$139,980	100.9	670	2.00×
17	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$138,590	97.9	1,250	1.65×
18	Boulder, CO	$137,530	105.2	580	3.03×
19	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$137,430	111.1	2,260	1.09×
20	Gulfport-Biloxi, MS	$136,990	90.0	200	1.25×
21	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$136,650	108.8	460	2.32×
22	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	$135,930	91.9	220	0.98×
23	Warner Robins, GA	$135,820	93.8	320	4.28×
24	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$135,300	112.6	5,780	0.61×
25	Boise City, ID	$135,020	98.4	310	0.81×
26	Amarillo, TX	$134,380	91.8	90	0.72×
27	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$133,940	108.3	2,490	0.93×
28	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$132,790	111.9	3,570	2.34×
29	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	$132,650	97.0	830	6.66×
30	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$132,580	100.4	150	1.18×
31	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$132,010	103.7	40	0.28×
32	Morgantown, WV	$131,990	93.3	190	2.82×
33	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$131,740	105.8	1,270	0.80×
34	Chico, CA	$131,660	101.2	40	0.58×
35	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$131,580	105.7	260	1.31×
36	Ogden, UT	$131,460	100.3	610	2.29×
37	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$130,810	99.6	580	1.31×
38	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$130,270	98.6	3,490	1.07×
39	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	$129,990	86.0	100	0.62×
40	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$129,880	101.1	100	0.59×

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 engineers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Civil Engineers$100,840
Industrial Engineers$102,440
Mechanical Engineers$104,110
Electrical Engineers$120,630
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$130,220
Computer Hardware Engineers$161,740
Aerospace Engineers$134,960
Environmental Engineers$107,110