What is the average salary for Computer Hardware Engineers?

The average salary for Computer Hardware Engineers is $192K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 125 public records.

Which cities pay Computer Hardware Engineers the most?

The highest-paying cities for Computer Hardware Engineers include San Jose, CA, Mountain View, CA, Sunnyvale, CA.

What skills do Computer Hardware Engineers need?

Key skills for Computer Hardware Engineers include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Computer Hardware Engineers

Salary benchmarks based on 125 public records across 6 cities.

What do Computer Hardware Engineers do?

Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. May supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components. Excludes “Software Developers” (15-1252) and “Web Developers” (15-1254).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2061)

What our data shows for Computer Hardware Engineers

RoleHue publishes 125 salary records for Computer Hardware Engineers, across 6 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $172,869 at the 25th percentile to $213,984 at the 75th, a spread of $41,115 around $191,744. 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 $191,744 figure rather than in dollars (21% of it), that spread is tighter than 70% of the roles we cover.

San Jose, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $222,795; Austin, TX the lowest at $155,000, a gap of $67,795. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $30,068, narrower than the $41,115 band within cities: for Computer Hardware 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 Mountain View, CA, with 32 of the 125 records we publish for this role (26%). Evidence clears 25 records in 3 of the 6 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.