Electrical Engineers
Salary benchmarks based on 574 public records across 26 cities.
What do Electrical Engineers do?
Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. Excludes “Computer Hardware Engineers” (17-2061).
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2071)
What our data shows for Electrical Engineers
RoleHue publishes 574 salary records for Electrical Engineers, across 26 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $128,799 at the 25th percentile to $165,096 at the 75th, a spread of $36,297 around $145,186. 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 $145,186 figure rather than in dollars (25% of it), that spread is tighter than 62% of the roles we cover.
Palo Alto, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $209,332; Tamuning, GU the lowest at $52,460, a gap of $156,872. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $72,418, wider than the $36,297 band within cities: for Electrical Engineers, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.
No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Austin, TX, with 58 of the 574 records we publish for this role (10%). Evidence clears 25 records in 8 of the 26 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 574 data points.
$129K
P25
$145K
P50
$165K
P75
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Electrical Engineers roles, plus anonymous submissions.
Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-07-31. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.