The annual salary statistics of sales engineers in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California is shown in Table 1. The wage information of sales engineers in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].
| Percentile Bracket | Average Annual Salary |
|---|---|
| 10th Percentile Wage | $72,540 |
| 25th Percentile Wage | $88,920 |
| 50th Percentile Wage | $126,660 |
| 75th Percentile Wage | $149,120 |
| 90th Percentile Wage | $195,800 |
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for sales engineers in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $195,800. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $126,660. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $72,540.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of sales engineers from 2012 to 2022.
| Year | Median Salary | Yearly Growth | 10-Year Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $126,660 | -1.52% | 9.31% |
| 2021 | $128,580 | 1.42% | - |
| 2019 | $126,750 | 5.81% | - |
| 2017 | $119,380 | 3.78% | - |
| 2016 | $114,870 | 16.00% | - |
| 2015 | $96,490 | -19.05% | - |
| 2012 | $114,870 | - | - |
From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $126,660 in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is in the middle of salary range for sales engineers in state of California. In comparison, the annual salary of sales engineers in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara is 17.8 percent (17.8%) lower than that in the highest paying San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara and 39.2 percent (39.2%) higher than that in the lowest paying Vallejo-Fairfield.