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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians · SOC 17-3023

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary in the Trenton Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Trenton-Princeton, NJ metro area

Figures describe the Trenton-Princeton, NJ metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Trenton city limits.

Median annual wage$80,710
Median hourly wage$38.80

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians in the Trenton-Princeton, NJ metro area earned a median of $80,710 per year ($38.80 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $59,480 at the 10th percentile to $122,840 at the 90th. BLS estimates 220 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians in the Trenton metro area earn more than $80,710 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $66,340 and $106,040.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$59,480$66,340$80,710$106,040$122,840
Hourly$28.60$31.90$38.80$50.98$59.06

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Trenton metro areathis metro area
    $80,710
  • New Jerseystate (NJ)
    $85,510
  • United Statesnational
    $78,190

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −6% vs New Jersey overall and +3% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$37,280$60,270$83,260$106,250Logan, UT-ID — $37,280Mayaguez, PR — $42,040Harrisonburg, VA — $45,840San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $50,080Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $53,640Johnson City, TN — $54,810State College, PA — $56,320Longview, TX — $57,650Aguadilla, PR — $57,730Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $57,750Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $58,650Joplin, MO-KS — $58,690Appleton, WI — $58,820Salisbury, MD — $60,090Columbus, OH — $60,260Eau Claire, WI — $60,300Youngstown-Warren, OH — $60,410Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $60,640Jackson, TN — $60,680Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $60,750Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $60,820Utica-Rome, NY — $61,210Columbus, IN — $61,230Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $61,460South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $61,630College Station-Bryan, TX — $61,710Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $61,840Fort Wayne, IN — $61,860Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $62,260Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $62,290McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $62,320El Paso, TX — $62,680Lexington-Fayette, KY — $62,770Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $62,800Springfield, MO — $62,800Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $62,850Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $63,210Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $63,460Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $64,090Cleveland, OH — $64,140Evansville, IN — $64,270Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $64,320Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $64,470Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $64,850Ocala, FL — $65,040Columbia, SC — $65,400Madison, WI — $65,420Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $65,700Omaha, NE-IA — $65,790Lincoln, NE — $66,060Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $66,170Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI — $66,430Manhattan, KS — $66,440Chattanooga, TN-GA — $66,480Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $66,550Lancaster, PA — $66,560Tulsa, OK — $66,560Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $66,690Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $66,890Knoxville, TN — $67,060Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $67,380Akron, OH — $67,400Toledo, OH — $67,510Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $67,680St. Louis, MO-IL — $67,850Savannah, GA — $67,850Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $68,000Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $68,040Terre Haute, IN — $68,250San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $68,270Ann Arbor, MI — $68,420Huntsville, AL — $68,690Wilmington, NC — $68,790Iowa City, IA — $69,130Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $69,410Colorado Springs, CO — $69,610York-Hanover, PA — $69,940Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $69,970Decatur, AL — $70,310Duluth, MN-WI — $70,800Gainesville, FL — $70,910Montgomery, AL — $70,930Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $71,240Clarksville, TN-KY — $71,490Columbia, MO — $71,560Mankato, MN — $71,770Killeen-Temple, TX — $71,780Greeley, CO — $71,830Pittsburgh, PA — $72,160Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $72,270Lafayette, LA — $72,320Asheville, NC — $72,440Raleigh-Cary, NC — $72,640Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $73,120Reno, NV — $73,220Cedar Rapids, IA — $73,550Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $73,740Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $73,920Pocatello, ID — $73,920Charlottesville, VA — $74,100Kansas City, MO-KS — $74,250Winston-Salem, NC — $74,630Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $74,660New Haven, CT — $74,670Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $74,760Midland, TX — $74,760Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $74,770Spartanburg, SC — $75,220Tucson, AZ — $75,460Worcester, MA — $75,530Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $75,580North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $75,650Visalia, CA — $75,650Jefferson City, MO — $75,760Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $75,850Pittsfield, MA — $75,860Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $75,970Wichita, KS — $76,040Williamsport, PA — $76,110Jacksonville, NC — $76,210Manchester-Nashua, NH — $76,250Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $76,350Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $76,440Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $76,440Reading, PA — $76,730San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $76,750Fargo, ND-MN — $76,860Chambersburg, PA — $76,900Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $76,900Tallahassee, FL — $77,000Barnstable Town, MA — $77,130Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $77,150Boulder, CO — $77,210Rochester, NY — $77,280Lubbock, TX — $77,440Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $77,480Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $77,490Yuma, AZ — $77,660Roanoke, VA — $77,740Boise City, ID — $77,830Florence, SC — $77,840Lynchburg, VA — $77,910Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $77,990Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $78,190Dalton, GA — $78,230Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $78,270Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $78,280Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $78,330Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $78,610Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $78,720Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $78,970Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $79,230Monroe, LA — $79,340Sherman-Denison, TX — $79,360Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $79,370St. Cloud, MN — $79,370Lawton, OK — $79,440Greensboro-High Point, NC — $79,540Binghamton, NY — $79,680Mobile, AL — $79,700Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $79,710Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $79,800Niles, MI — $79,820Corpus Christi, TX — $80,120Green Bay, WI — $80,120Amarillo, TX — $80,470Waco, TX — $80,580Springfield, IL — $80,640Warner Robins, GA — $80,660Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $80,700Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $80,710Fresno, CA — $81,040Johnstown, PA — $81,040Jackson, MS — $81,180Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $81,220Eugene-Springfield, OR — $81,260Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $81,330Janesville-Beloit, WI — $81,790Fayetteville, NC — $81,860Grand Forks, ND-MN — $81,930Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $81,930Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $81,940New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $82,000Odessa, TX — $82,130Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $82,150Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $82,240Victoria, TX — $82,300Lebanon, PA — $82,360Twin Falls, ID — $82,390Coeur d'Alene, ID — $82,560Kennewick-Richland, WA — $82,560Syracuse, NY — $82,830Jackson, MI — $83,070Springfield, MA — $84,020Oklahoma City, OK — $84,070Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $84,090Gainesville, GA — $84,480Peoria, IL — $84,610Rochester, MN — $84,630Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $84,900Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $85,160Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ — $85,370Charleston, WV — $85,510Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $85,510Jacksonville, FL — $85,510New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $85,510Portland-South Portland, ME — $85,510Richmond, VA — $85,510Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $85,510Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $85,510La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $85,540Las Cruces, NM — $85,780Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $86,180Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $86,370Ogden, UT — $88,040Tuscaloosa, AL — $89,610Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $90,660San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $91,020Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $91,170San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $91,620Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $92,180Anchorage, AK — $92,570Cheyenne, WY — $94,020Billings, MT — $94,150Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $94,330San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $95,280Urban Honolulu, HI — $96,200Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $96,400Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $96,660Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $96,870Wheeling, WV-OH — $97,450Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $97,680Lake Charles, LA — $97,740Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $98,180Casper, WY — $99,840Albuquerque, NM — $102,250Baton Rouge, LA — $102,380Lexington Park, MD — $102,640Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $103,170Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $103,480Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $106,250

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Trenton metro area has the 71st-highest published median for this occupation among the 241 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in New Jersey

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Trenton metro areathis page
    $80,710
  • Atlantic City metro area
    $103,480

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Civil Engineers$101,090Environmental Engineers$92,150Industrial Engineers$99,920Engineers, All Other$125,320Architects, Except Landscape and Naval$109,140Mechanical Engineers$101,470

Highest-paying metro areas for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicianss · Highest-paying occupations in Trenton Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.