Civil Engineers

What do Civil Engineers do?

Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. Includes architectural, structural, traffic, and geotechnical engineers. Excludes “Hydrologists” (19-2043).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2051)

What our data shows for Civil Engineers

RoleHue publishes 310 salary records for Civil Engineers, across 15 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $86,174 at the 25th percentile to $111,880 at the 75th, a spread of $25,706 around $96,199. 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 $96,199 figure rather than in dollars (27% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

Herndon, VA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $126,700; Harmon, GU the lowest at $53,622, a gap of $73,078. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $12,160, narrower than the $25,706 band within cities: for Civil 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 New York, NY, with 41 of the 310 records we publish for this role (13%). Evidence clears 25 records in 4 of the 15 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 310 data points.

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