Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians offer sit among all 92,710 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 92,710 people in May 2024, 0.06% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 12,460 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 27.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Mexico, whose location quotient of 2.07 says this work is 2.07 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $111,790, which is 2.3 times the $48,250 at the 10th, a difference of $63,540 annually. Because the mean wage ($78,580) sits above the median ($77,180), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $102,500; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians stands number 286 by employment and number 237 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Architecture and Engineering Occupations, the group median wage is $96,690 across 36 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 3.6% of the group's 2,567,220 jobs. In 24 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $77,180, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is the largest metro employer with 3,270 jobs, 3.5% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $65,810 a year, against $101,520 in Bakersfield-Delano, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $6,432 a month before tax, $2,968 biweekly, $1,484 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($60,610) to the 75th ($94,810) is worth $34,200 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $84,898 would sit between the median ($77,180) and the 75th percentile ($94,810), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $60,610, is $16,570 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Sibling occupations in Architecture and Engineering Occupations: Mechanical Drafters, Environmental Engineers, Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors, Materials Engineers, Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.