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Engineers, All Other · SOC 17-2199

Engineers, All Other Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$133,940
Median hourly wage$64.40

Engineers, All Other in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $133,940 per year ($64.40 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $86,120 at the 10th percentile to $194,310 at the 90th. BLS estimates 2,490 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Engineers, All Other in the Boston metro area earn more than $133,940 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $104,850 and $164,110.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$86,120$104,850$133,940$164,110$194,310
Hourly$41.40$50.41$64.40$78.90$93.42

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

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $133,940
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $131,260
  • United Statesnational
    $122,930

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

The median here is +2% vs Massachusetts overall and +9% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$63,800$99,083$134,367$169,650Ponce, PR — $63,800Lincoln, NE — $64,060Topeka, KS — $67,720Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $70,310Macon-Bibb County, GA — $71,990Wichita, KS — $73,470Joplin, MO-KS — $73,540Manhattan, KS — $73,580Tallahassee, FL — $73,650Mayaguez, PR — $73,780Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $74,280Ocala, FL — $76,970Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $77,310Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $78,100Gainesville, FL — $78,120Canton-Massillon, OH — $78,260Helena, MT — $79,750Fort Smith, AR-OK — $79,890Lafayette, LA — $80,650Jefferson City, MO — $81,000Toledo, OH — $81,210Johnson City, TN — $81,390Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $82,100Erie, PA — $82,490Champaign-Urbana, IL — $83,230Salisbury, MD — $83,410Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $83,530Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $84,260McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $85,000Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $85,860Lubbock, TX — $86,240Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $87,810Florence, SC — $88,100Duluth, MN-WI — $90,430Merced, CA — $90,450Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $91,790Savannah, GA — $91,940Greeley, CO — $92,070Evansville, IN — $92,300Springfield, OH — $92,370Monroe, LA — $92,560Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $92,790Morristown, TN — $93,290Kansas City, MO-KS — $93,330Lexington-Fayette, KY — $93,400York-Hanover, PA — $93,940Lake Charles, LA — $94,810Alexandria, LA — $95,000Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $95,140Ames, IA — $95,260Springfield, MO — $95,300Roanoke, VA — $95,370Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $95,400Port St. Lucie, FL — $95,430Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $95,890San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $95,990Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $96,410Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $96,440Lancaster, PA — $96,500Bend, OR — $96,520Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $96,730Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $96,900Spartanburg, SC — $97,130San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $97,210Fargo, ND-MN — $97,390Clarksville, TN-KY — $97,470Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $97,590Eugene-Springfield, OR — $97,710Utica-Rome, NY — $97,940Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $98,000Saginaw, MI — $98,380Visalia, CA — $98,570Great Falls, MT — $98,660Salinas, CA — $98,950Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $99,140Columbus, OH — $99,180Jackson, TN — $99,180Reno, NV — $99,310Longview, TX — $99,460Knoxville, TN — $99,650Winston-Salem, NC — $99,890Bloomington, IL — $99,930Gainesville, GA — $100,060Rochester, NY — $100,080Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $100,110Flint, MI — $100,190Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $100,280Odessa, TX — $100,600South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $100,630Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $100,880Bozeman, MT — $100,910Rocky Mount, NC — $100,910Corvallis, OR — $101,030Chattanooga, TN-GA — $101,200Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $101,440North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $101,490Baton Rouge, LA — $101,720Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $102,000Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $102,280Vallejo, CA — $102,440Akron, OH — $102,530Youngstown-Warren, OH — $102,560Iowa City, IA — $102,660Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $102,920Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $103,330Grand Forks, ND-MN — $103,380St. George, UT — $103,380Waco, TX — $103,670New Haven, CT — $103,800St. Louis, MO-IL — $103,880Ithaca, NY — $103,890Tucson, AZ — $104,030Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $104,130Hammond, LA — $104,140Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $104,190Salem, OR — $104,420Rockford, IL — $104,490Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $104,750Columbia, MO — $104,760Chambersburg, PA — $104,770Midland, TX — $104,840Raleigh-Cary, NC — $104,910Killeen-Temple, TX — $104,990Corpus Christi, TX — $105,330Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $105,400Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $105,810Asheville, NC — $105,840Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $106,300Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $106,320Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $107,220Tulsa, OK — $107,240Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $107,630Fort Wayne, IN — $107,720Cheyenne, WY — $107,810Richmond, VA — $107,990Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $108,140Worcester, MA — $108,220El Paso, TX — $108,240Yuma, AZ — $108,780Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $108,810Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $109,080Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $109,610Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $110,010Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $110,140Madison, WI — $110,360Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $110,520Binghamton, NY — $110,930New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $110,970Cedar Rapids, IA — $111,080Modesto, CA — $111,840Battle Creek, MI — $112,260Jacksonville, FL — $112,400Pittsburgh, PA — $112,420Omaha, NE-IA — $113,440Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $113,880Springfield, MA — $114,250Columbia, SC — $114,560Peoria, IL — $114,820Mobile, AL — $114,850Jacksonville, NC — $115,210Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $115,210Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $115,210Wilmington, NC — $115,210Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $116,500Pueblo, CO — $117,310San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $117,620Greensboro-High Point, NC — $118,160Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $118,230Cleveland, OH — $118,590Columbus, GA-AL — $118,770Reading, PA — $118,870Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $118,930Monroe, MI — $119,400Charleston, WV — $119,900Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $120,040Urban Honolulu, HI — $121,010Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $121,350College Station-Bryan, TX — $121,440Las Cruces, NM — $121,510Ann Arbor, MI — $121,530Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $121,910Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $122,400Fresno, CA — $122,470Wheeling, WV-OH — $122,470Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $122,570Redding, CA — $122,740Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $122,990Portland-South Portland, ME — $123,780Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $124,220Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $124,250Oklahoma City, OK — $124,340Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $124,550Albany, OR — $124,900Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $125,060Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $125,160Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $125,320Pittsfield, MA — $125,350Fayetteville, NC — $125,980Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $126,250Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $126,380Syracuse, NY — $126,400Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $127,150Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $127,400Stockton-Lodi, CA — $127,560Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $127,640Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $127,710Idaho Falls, ID — $128,670Colorado Springs, CO — $129,790Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $129,880Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $129,990Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $130,270Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $130,810Ogden, UT — $131,460Manchester-Nashua, NH — $131,580Chico, CA — $131,660Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $131,740Morgantown, WV — $131,990Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $132,010Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $132,580Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $132,650San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $132,790Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $133,940Amarillo, TX — $134,380Boise City, ID — $135,020New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $135,300Warner Robins, GA — $135,820Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $135,930Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $136,650Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $136,990Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $137,430Boulder, CO — $137,530Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $138,590Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $139,980Bellingham, WA — $140,220Greenville, NC — $140,970Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $141,150Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $142,080Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $142,130Kennewick-Richland, WA — $142,920Anchorage, AK — $145,500Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $151,340Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $151,760Charlottesville, VA — $153,340Huntsville, AL — $155,630San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $159,800Albuquerque, NM — $163,630Lexington Park, MD — $166,230San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $169,650

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 Boston metro area has the 27th-highest published median for this occupation among the 248 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 Massachusetts

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for engineers, all other, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Boston metro areathis page
    $133,940
  • Pittsfield metro area
    $125,350
  • Springfield metro area
    $114,250
  • Worcester metro area
    $108,220

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:

Industrial Engineers$118,970Civil Engineers$107,670Mechanical Engineers$119,300Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$142,920Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers$128,550Electrical Engineers$128,610

Highest-paying metro areas for engineers, all others · Highest-paying occupations in Boston 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.