Sales Engineers

What do Sales Engineers do?

Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering. Excludes “Engineers” (17-2011 through 17-2199) whose primary function is not marketing or sales.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 41-9031)

What our data shows for Sales Engineers

RoleHue publishes 150 salary records for Sales Engineers, across 8 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $141,069 at the 25th percentile to $187,968 at the 75th, a spread of $46,899 around $164,406. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $164,406 figure rather than in dollars (29% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

Redmond, WA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $180,750; Houston, TX the lowest at $116,608, a gap of $64,142. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $3,101, narrower than the $46,899 band within cities: for Sales Engineers, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is San Jose, CA, with 31 of the 150 records we publish for this role (21%). Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 8 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 150 data points.

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