Validation Engineers
Salary benchmarks based on 30 public records across 2 cities.
What do Validation Engineers do?
Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination. Excludes “Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors” (17-2111).
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 17-2112)
What our data shows for Validation Engineers
RoleHue publishes 30 salary records for Validation Engineers, across 2 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $118,367 at the 25th percentile to $129,298 at the 75th, a spread of $10,931 around $122,884. 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 $122,884 figure rather than in dollars (9% of it), that spread is tighter than 92% of the roles we cover, so a single record tells you more here than it would for most titles.
Sunnyvale, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $150,000; Rensselaer, NY the lowest at $102,149, a gap of $47,851.
Most of the evidence on this page sits in Rensselaer, NY, with 17 of the 30 records we publish for this role (57%), so the weighted figures above lean on a single metro more than on the country. No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.
Salary Overview
Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 30 data points.
$118K
P25
$123K
P50
$129K
P75
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Validation Engineers roles, plus anonymous submissions.
Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-06-08. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.