Automotive Engineers

What do Automotive Engineers do?

Perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment such as centralized heat, gas, water, and steam systems.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2141)

What our data shows for Automotive Engineers

RoleHue publishes 97 salary records for Automotive Engineers, across 6 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $110,593 at the 25th percentile to $135,601 at the 75th, a spread of $25,008 around $120,192. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $120,192 figure rather than in dollars (21% of it), that spread is tighter than 77% of the roles we cover.

Newark, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $159,327; Allen Park, MI the lowest at $93,642, a gap of $65,685. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $12,581, narrower than the $25,008 band within cities: for Automotive Engineers, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Auburn Hills, MI, with 31 of the 97 records we publish for this role (32%). Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 6 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 97 data points.

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