Civil Engineers
United States. Estimated employment 367,840, with pages for 30 metro areas below.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 17-2051
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
Drag the marker, or type a figure
$100,840 · 50th
$68,24010th
$79,93025th
$100,84050th
$129,68075th
$163,22090th
That is the median — half of civil engineers in the US earn more.
Table 1 — By metro area
Where it pays
Every published Civil Engineers page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.
| Metro area | Median | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $130,280 | 3,170 |
| San Francisco, CA | $130,160 | 10,990 |
| Sacramento, CA | $130,150 | 5,590 |
| Redding, CA | $126,000 | 380 |
| Napa, CA | $123,440 | 180 |
| Vallejo, CA | $122,510 | 300 |
| Salinas, CA | $122,160 | 250 |
| Yuba City, CA | $119,990 | 460 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $108,640 | 16,340 |
| New York, NY | $107,330 | 15,590 |
| Binghamton, NY | $106,140 | 240 |
| Springfield, IL | $105,750 | 440 |
| Albany, NY | $102,470 | 1,470 |
| Syracuse, NY | $102,330 | 830 |
| Houston, TX | $100,950 | 12,140 |
| Austin, TX | $100,470 | 4,940 |
| Chicago, IL | $100,160 | 9,760 |
| Rochester, NY | $99,460 | 890 |
| Champaign, IL | $98,910 | 230 |
| Kiryas Joel, NY | $98,180 | 400 |
| Bloomington, IL | $97,070 | 120 |
| Dallas, TX | $96,920 | 8,010 |
| Decatur, IL | $96,170 | 100 |
| Beaumont, TX | $95,510 | 720 |
| Midland, TX | $95,480 | 230 |
| Corpus Christi, TX | $95,160 | 820 |
| Peoria, IL | $95,140 | 430 |
| Rockford, IL | $94,850 | 160 |
| Killeen, TX | $92,830 | 270 |
| San Antonio, TX | $88,290 | 2,230 |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Employment
- 367,840 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 17-2051, Civil Engineers. Mapped to our taxonomy as civil-engineers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.