Highest-paying Cities for Materials Engineers

The top 100 highest paying cities for materials engineers (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of materials engineers in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $138,860, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia is the highest paying city for materials engineers. It is followed by San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California (average annual salary $136,600). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of materials engineers in a specific city, use the links in the table.

Table 1. 100 Highest-paying cities/areas for Materials Engineers

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia	$138,860	$82,060	490
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California	$136,600	$84,020	510
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	$134,030	$82,720	760
4	West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area, Kentucky	$133,910	$79,710	60
5	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas	$132,750	$86,140	460
6	Albuquerque, New Mexico	$132,460	$73,510	240
7	Boulder, Colorado	$131,790	$81,080	110
8	Memphis, Tennessee	$130,340	$48,960	40
9	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, Rhode Island	$130,280	$80,140	40
10	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington	$128,380	$77,430	270
11	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut	$127,140	$98,420	80
12	Dayton, Ohio	$123,820	$68,800	280
13	Idaho Falls, Idaho	$122,770	$79,570	110
14	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, California	$122,000	$86,070	400
15	Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, Washington	$120,100	$84,820	40
16	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, Maryland	$118,120	$75,620	220
17	Huntsville, Alabama	$117,370	$76,700	300
18	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine	$116,640	$69,700	30
19	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	$115,900	$84,040	60
20	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia	$115,850	$72,460	220
21	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$115,610	$76,620	440
22	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$113,950	$81,800	210
23	California-Lexington Park, Maryland	$113,820	$80,370	80
24	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, California	$111,750	$68,710	260
25	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$111,390	$77,560	150
26	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia	$111,010	$52,610	110
27	Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California	$110,320	$76,440	110
28	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania	$109,790	$61,450	460
29	Wichita, Kansas	$108,620	$74,270	160
30	Vallejo-Fairfield, California	$108,450	$84,270	30
31	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida	$108,160	$70,500	90
32	North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$107,490	$64,260	40
33	St Marys County, Maryland	$106,800	$59,150	60
34	Bakersfield-Delano, California	$106,790	$67,880	50
35	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, Tennessee	$106,090	$64,120	170
36	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$106,070	$80,150	240
37	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York	$105,640	$64,270	90
38	Worcester, Massachusetts	$105,100	$56,620	80
39	Ann Arbor, Michigan	$104,980	$47,730	40
40	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California	$104,830	$51,340	530
41	Chattanooga, Tennessee	$104,470	$57,300	60
42	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona	$104,440	$73,320	180
43	Corpus Christi, Texas	$104,420	$70,780	n/a
44	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	$104,280	$71,110	30
45	Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$103,960	$70,000	120
46	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, California	$103,460	$68,860	870
47	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, Louisiana	$103,300	$77,050	70
48	Framingham, Massachusetts	$103,260	$72,270	60
49	Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky	$103,210	$62,000	80
50	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$103,140	$80,700	1,170
51	Salt Lake City, Utah	$102,960	$69,070	150
52	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California	$102,770	$64,310	960
53	Trenton-Ewing, New Jersey	$102,680	$62,250	60
54	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California	$102,610	$71,400	40
55	Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina	$102,410	$29,200	40
56	Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina	$102,370	$80,520	40
57	Syracuse, New York	$102,080	$63,020	30
58	Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area, New York	$101,780	$76,650	180
59	Ogden-Clearfield, Utah	$101,690	$63,710	110
60	Fort Wayne, Indiana	$101,020	$68,110	40
61	Reading, Pennsylvania	$100,940	$66,780	50
62	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas	$100,710	$59,810	500
63	Nassau-Suffolk, New York	$100,650	$60,070	40
64	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado	$100,520	$50,510	260
65	St Louis, Missouri	$100,480	$63,980	310
66	Decatur, Alabama	$100,420	$63,470	60
67	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, New York	$100,210	$63,580	60
68	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville (IL-IN-WI Area), Illinois	$100,110	$47,300	140
69	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, South Carolina	$99,980	$61,210	170
70	Rochester, New York	$99,960	$58,980	30
71	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California	$99,840	$64,770	250
72	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa	$99,770	$78,990	60
73	Lafayette, Louisiana	$99,670	$85,810	n/a
74	Richmond, Virginia	$99,620	$61,700	140
75	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, Virginia	$99,470	$63,370	40
76	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California	$99,370	$45,170	30
77	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, Florida	$99,040	$60,680	100
78	Evansville, Kentucky	$98,920	$67,870	50
79	Dover-Durham, New Hampshire	$98,620	$64,350	30
80	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville (IL Metropolitan Division), Illinois	$98,620	$49,490	430
81	Owensboro, Kentucky	$98,490	$71,710	30
82	New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York	$98,420	$63,890	340
83	Nevada nonmetropolitan area, Nevada	$98,250	$65,000	70
84	Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Virginia	$98,140	$62,090	40
85	Newark-Union, Pennsylvania	$98,110	$63,340	140
86	Camden, New Jersey	$97,710	$72,980	40
87	Albany, Oregon	$97,700	$73,830	40
88	Tuscaloosa, Alabama	$97,630	$63,560	40
89	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, West Virginia	$97,560	$60,750	30
90	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, New Hampshire	$97,150	$69,150	50
91	Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin	$97,110	$60,720	250
92	Tucson, Arizona	$97,040	$79,620	30
93	New Haven, Connecticut	$96,970	$63,910	30
94	North Arizona nonmetropolitan area, Arizona	$96,640	$79,690	70
95	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$96,410	$67,340	320
96	West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$96,180	$62,660	170
97	Reno-Sparks, Nevada	$96,080	$60,980	50
98	Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas	$95,920	$66,750	690
99	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, California	$95,700	$63,730	130
100	Eastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area, Ohio	$95,300	$58,680	40

See also: 💰 Highest paying industries for materials engineers.