What is the average salary for Mechanical Engineers?

The average salary for Mechanical Engineers is $127K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 778 public records.

Which cities pay Mechanical Engineers the most?

The highest-paying cities for Mechanical Engineers include Mountain View, CA, Cupertino, CA, Redmond, WA.

What skills do Mechanical Engineers need?

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

Mechanical Engineers

Salary benchmarks based on 778 public records across 34 cities.

What do Mechanical 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 Mechanical Engineers

RoleHue publishes 778 salary records for Mechanical Engineers, across 34 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $111,485 at the 25th percentile to $143,468 at the 75th, a spread of $31,983 around $126,814. 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 $126,814 figure rather than in dollars (25% of it), that spread is tighter than 61% of the roles we cover.

Mountain View, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $183,435; Tamuning, GU the lowest at $50,250, a gap of $133,185. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $36,570, wider than the $31,983 band within cities: for Mechanical 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 Auburn Hills, MI, with 58 of the 778 records we publish for this role (7%). Evidence clears 25 records in 11 of the 34 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 778 data points.

$111K

P25

$127K

P50

$143K

P75

P25 $111K P50 $127K P75 $143K

Top Paying Cities

Mountain View, CA

$183K n=24 Cupertino, CA

$181K n=34 Redmond, WA

$177K n=13 Sunnyvale, CA

$176K n=34 Palo Alto, CA

$158K n=22 San Francisco, CA

$156K n=12 Fremont, CA

$155K n=24 Newark, CA

$151K n=15 Santa Clara, CA

$145K n=31 San Jose, CA

$135K n=32

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Mechanical Engineers roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-06-08. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.