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Electrical Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 1,066 live Electrical Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
1,066
Employers
329
Remote
6%
Typical pay
$100k–208k
Verified live (7d)
1,001

Pay is advertised by 47% of these postings (498 of 1,066 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
0–2 years$105k49
3–5 years$124k164
6–9 years$129k131
10+ years$160k77

Skills in demand

Across 751 electrical engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Professional Engineer33%
  • Autodesk AutoCAD33%
  • Autodesk Revit25%
  • ETAP18%
  • Altium Designer12%
  • C++12%
  • The MathWorks MATLAB11%
  • SolidWorks5.1%
  • MathWorks Simulink3.7%
  • Bentley MicroStation3.3%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 914 postings stated one

0–2 years
11%
3–5 years
39%
6–9 years
26%
10+ years
24%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 499 postings stated one

Remote
13%
Hybrid
41%
On-site
46%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 821 postings stated one

High school
0.6%
Associate
0.9%
Bachelor's
97%
Master's
0.4%
Doctorate
0.9%

Employers hiring for this

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