Mechanical Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 1,117 live Mechanical Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles: 1,117
Employers: 351
Remote: 5%
Typical pay: $100k–200k
Verified live (7d): 1,069

Pay is advertised by 58% of these postings (651 of 1,117 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

Experience	Median	Postings
0–2 years	$100k	88
3–5 years	$120k	244
6–9 years	$140k	144
10+ years	$143k	83

Skills in demand

Across 837 mechanical engineer postings that named at least one skill

SolidWorks45%
Professional Engineer22%
Autodesk AutoCAD22%
Autodesk Revit21%
The MathWorks MATLAB8.8%
IBM CATIA8.2%
Siemens Teamcenter8.2%
PTC Windchill6.7%
Siemens NX5.7%
Apache Airflow4.4%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 964 postings stated one

0–2 years: 14%
3–5 years: 39%
6–9 years: 28%
10+ years: 19%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 495 postings stated one

Remote: 11%
Hybrid: 32%
On-site: 57%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 854 postings stated one

High school: 0.6%
Associate: 0.2%
Bachelor's: 98%
Master's: 0.6%
Doctorate: 0.8%

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