Occupation / job
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians pays $78,190 at the midpoint, 56% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
With 95,130 in the occupation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
Technician and drafting roles suit people who want the technical work without the liability of the stamp, and who are good at being exactly right about details someone else specified.
We carry no verified training length for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
$61,610 to $97,650 — 1.6x, or $3,003 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
The bottom quarter of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians earns $61,610 or more — $11,590 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.
Avoid it if you want the design authority; without the licence this role does not get it, however good you are.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 95,130 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $78,190 as where you might be after years in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians, and $61,610 as where you would start.
The middle half of this field earns between $61,610 and $97,650. That is $36,040 of range, with $78,190 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $97,650, the 75th percentile, is worth $19,460 a year more than the $78,190 midpoint and $36,040 more than the $61,610 a quarter of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians settle for.
From $78,190 it is $16,580 down to the bottom quarter and $19,460 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $29.62 at the bottom quarter, $37.59 at the midpoint, $46.94 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $78,190 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $78,190 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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