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Sales Engineers · SOC 41-9031

Sales Engineers Salary in the San Jose Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Jose city limits.

Median annual wage$177,490
Median hourly wage$85.33

Sales Engineers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area earned a median of $177,490 per year ($85.33 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $100,830 at the 10th percentile to $242,520 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,600 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Sales Engineers in the San Jose metro area earn more than $177,490 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $141,930 and $209,730.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$100,830$141,930$177,490$209,730$242,520
Hourly$48.48$68.23$85.33$100.83$116.60

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

  • San Jose metro areathis metro area
    $177,490
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $139,160
  • United Statesnational
    $124,900

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

The median here is +28% vs California overall and +42% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$51,460$93,470$135,480$177,490San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $51,460Anchorage, AK — $71,080Springfield, MO — $71,250Rockford, IL — $75,320Canton-Massillon, OH — $80,370Erie, PA — $82,300Traverse City, MI — $82,780Tucson, AZ — $82,780Lincoln, NE — $83,240Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $83,450Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $84,990El Paso, TX — $85,210Utica-Rome, NY — $85,790Lubbock, TX — $88,010Toledo, OH — $89,780Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $90,190Lexington-Fayette, KY — $91,880Reading, PA — $92,370Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $92,650Wichita, KS — $92,730Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $93,500Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $93,920York-Hanover, PA — $94,020Jackson, MS — $94,420Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $94,590Youngstown-Warren, OH — $95,020Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $95,910Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $96,320Spartanburg, SC — $96,520Springfield, MA — $96,860Pittsburgh, PA — $97,430Lynchburg, VA — $97,540Savannah, GA — $97,650Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $97,800Omaha, NE-IA — $97,820Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $97,920Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $97,960Cleveland, OH — $98,220Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $98,720Cedar Rapids, IA — $98,750Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $98,820Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $99,230Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $99,690Manchester-Nashua, NH — $99,890Logan, UT-ID — $100,310Ogden, UT — $100,490Akron, OH — $100,560Richmond, VA — $101,210Kansas City, MO-KS — $101,640Roanoke, VA — $102,010Binghamton, NY — $102,120Portland-South Portland, ME — $102,200Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $102,340Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $102,790Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $102,800St. Louis, MO-IL — $102,910Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $103,040Lancaster, PA — $103,320Saginaw, MI — $103,440Rochester, NY — $103,640Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $103,830Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $104,070Knoxville, TN — $104,170Tulsa, OK — $104,370Syracuse, NY — $104,810Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $104,850Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $105,040Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $105,080Greensboro-High Point, NC — $106,130Green Bay, WI — $107,300New Haven, CT — $107,940Columbia, SC — $108,830Winston-Salem, NC — $109,760Reno, NV — $110,360Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $110,610Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $110,940Fresno, CA — $111,160Asheville, NC — $111,250Wilmington, NC — $114,170Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $115,850Oklahoma City, OK — $116,490Appleton, WI — $116,570Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $116,790Columbus, OH — $117,110Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $118,450Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $118,610La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $118,760Jacksonville, FL — $119,550Madison, WI — $119,900Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $119,950Ann Arbor, MI — $121,000Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $121,100Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $121,270Lafayette, LA — $121,680Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $121,980San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $122,610Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $122,690Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $122,990Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $123,350Killeen-Temple, TX — $123,770Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $123,830Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $124,870Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $125,530Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $125,630Worcester, MA — $125,800Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $126,310Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $127,800Tallahassee, FL — $128,000San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $128,170Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $128,200Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $128,670Raleigh-Cary, NC — $129,520Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $129,850Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $130,170Chambersburg, PA — $130,310Colorado Springs, CO — $130,360Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $132,510New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $133,010Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $133,280Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $133,300Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $133,350Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $133,380Odessa, TX — $134,740Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $135,050Albuquerque, NM — $136,260Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $136,430Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $136,620Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $137,960Greeley, CO — $138,420Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $138,560Boulder, CO — $138,720Midland, TX — $138,930Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $139,990Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $143,970North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $147,130New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $147,570Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $151,450San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $151,610Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $153,410Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $153,560Ocala, FL — $158,190San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $163,810Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $175,310San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $177,490

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 San Jose metro area has the 1st-highest published median for this occupation among the 144 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 California

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

  • San Jose metro areathis page
    $177,490
  • San Luis Obispo metro area
    $163,810
  • San Francisco metro area
    $151,610
  • Santa Maria metro area
    $143,970
  • Sacramento metro area
    $138,560
  • Los Angeles metro area
    $133,380
  • Bakersfield metro area
    $132,510

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:

Retail Salespersons$44,220Cashiers$42,960Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$116,510Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$103,670First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$61,710Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$100,030

Highest-paying metro areas for sales engineerss · Highest-paying occupations in San Jose 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.