Sales Engineers · SOC 41-9031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Sales Engineerss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for sales engineers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 144 metro areas

Sales Engineers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$177,490	1,600	1.4
2	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$175,310	330	1.0
3	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$163,810	30	0.3
4	Ocala, FL	$158,190	40	0.3
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$153,560	520	0.3
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$153,410	1,010	0.3
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$151,610	930	0.4
8	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$151,450	80	0.4
9	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$147,570	3,440	0.4
10	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$147,130	50	0.2
11	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$143,970	40	0.2
12	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$139,990	2,010	1.2
13	Midland, TX	$138,930	70	0.6
14	Boulder, CO	$138,720	350	1.8
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$138,560	220	0.2
16	Greeley, CO	$138,420	30	0.3
17	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$137,960	1,230	1.0
18	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$136,620	2,410	0.9
19	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$136,430	90	0.3
20	Albuquerque, NM	$136,260	60	0.1
21	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$135,050	850	0.4
22	Odessa, TX	$134,740	50	0.6
23	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$133,380	1,770	0.3
24	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$133,350	40	0.1
25	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$133,300	50	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Sales Engineers overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.