Cost Estimators

What do Cost Estimators do?

Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 13-1051)

What our data shows for Cost Estimators

RoleHue publishes 21 salary records for Cost Estimators, across 2 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $110,243 at the 25th percentile to $148,914 at the 75th, a spread of $38,671 around $133,095. 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 $133,095 figure rather than in dollars (29% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $147,500; New York, NY the lowest at $120,000, a gap of $27,500.

Most of the evidence on this page sits in New York, NY, with 11 of the 21 records we publish for this role (52%), so the weighted figures above lean on a single metro more than on the country. No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 21 data points.

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