Highest-paying Cities for Sales Engineers

The top 100 highest paying cities for sales 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 sales engineers in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $183,790, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida is the highest paying city for sales engineers. It is followed by Roanoke, Virginia (average annual salary $175,100). 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 sales engineers in a specific city, use the links in the table.

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

Rank	City/Area	Average Salary i	Entry Level Salary i	# of Empl. i
1	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, Florida	$183,790	$71,090	70
2	Roanoke, Virginia	$175,100	$79,150	50
3	Salisbury, Maryland	$173,780	$135,550	30
4	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia	$167,350	$80,330	170
5	Eastern South Dakota nonmetropolitan area, South Dakota	$165,160	$60,660	40
6	Dover-Durham, New Hampshire	$164,590	$73,310	n/a
7	Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama	$158,340	$63,330	60
8	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California	$154,040	$93,830	3,500
9	Lake Charles, Louisiana	$149,140	$120,630	n/a
10	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia	$148,690	$94,340	1,310
11	Wilmington, New Jersey	$146,520	$87,280	50
12	Olympia, Washington	$145,810	$66,870	40
13	Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina	$144,440	$95,950	260
14	Huntsville, Alabama	$140,260	$73,170	70
15	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, California	$138,010	$84,050	2,180
16	Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado	$136,630	$80,160	140
17	Baltimore-Towson, Maryland	$133,730	$78,550	460
18	Colorado Springs, Colorado	$133,490	$78,650	110
19	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington	$132,010	$66,060	500
20	Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California	$131,140	$69,510	460
21	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas	$130,990	$77,110	1,430
22	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, West Virginia	$130,970	$108,200	30
23	New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York	$130,400	$75,200	2,580
24	Portsmouth, New Hampshire	$130,180	$73,600	80
25	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida	$129,570	$60,090	40
26	Richmond, Virginia	$128,360	$86,820	170
27	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington	$128,030	$72,910	730
28	Southern Vermont nonmetropolitan area, Vermont	$127,890	$82,070	70
29	Boulder, Colorado	$127,720	$84,900	320
30	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California	$126,660	$72,540	70
31	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia	$126,570	$80,600	1,400
32	Boise City-Nampa, Idaho	$125,460	$72,430	70
33	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, Florida	$125,140	$65,180	70
34	Gainesville, Florida	$125,130	$38,550	60
35	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado	$123,760	$75,250	970
36	New Bedford, Massachusetts	$122,770	$65,880	40
37	Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area, Texas	$122,010	$66,760	40
38	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington	$121,520	$74,820	1,210
39	Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Virginia	$120,960	$108,630	30
40	Chambersburg-Waynesboro, Pennsylvania	$120,360	$81,190	90
41	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, New Hampshire	$120,220	$69,700	330
42	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia	$120,000	$72,420	1,690
43	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, Maryland	$119,980	$62,730	350
44	Nashua, New Hampshire	$119,980	$49,300	190
45	Waterbury, Connecticut	$119,600	$35,880	40
46	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida	$117,180	$44,850	80
47	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California	$116,830	$75,020	640
48	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas	$116,480	$65,460	1,570
49	Coeur dAlene, Idaho	$116,370	$59,960	n/a
50	Jacksonville, Florida	$116,150	$51,580	140
51	Tacoma, Washington	$116,090	$76,550	30
52	Other New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area, New Hampshire	$115,710	$47,540	50
53	Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina	$115,620	$64,470	90
54	Lawrence-Methuen-Salem, New Hampshire	$115,470	$79,150	70
55	Corpus Christi, Texas	$115,160	$59,820	40
56	Tallahassee, Florida	$115,060	$54,860	40
57	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas	$114,950	$76,720	4,290
58	Topeka, Kansas	$114,880	$65,450	n/a
59	Edison-New Brunswick, New Jersey	$114,740	$55,390	760
60	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida	$114,700	$59,990	350
61	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, California	$114,410	$68,750	1,160
62	Macon, Georgia	$112,670	$59,410	40
63	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, California	$112,510	$72,940	60
64	Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont	$112,280	$74,110	50
65	Ann Arbor, Michigan	$111,730	$67,390	140
66	Midland, Texas	$111,640	$80,490	50
67	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, Rhode Island	$111,080	$71,810	70
68	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Florida	$110,760	$54,840	190
69	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, California	$109,920	$62,620	1,320
70	Binghamton, New York	$109,740	$81,440	40
71	Odessa, Texas	$109,490	$84,650	30
72	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Arizona	$108,610	$63,280	510
73	Bakersfield-Delano, California	$108,160	$77,420	50
74	Lubbock, Texas	$107,990	$57,320	70
75	Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky	$107,770	$61,800	120
76	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania	$107,620	$51,340	900
77	Danbury, Connecticut	$107,140	$79,740	60
78	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut	$106,810	$70,670	180
79	Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin	$106,790	$64,830	560
80	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, California	$106,570	$55,770	2,260
81	Newark-Union, Pennsylvania	$106,550	$57,530	550
82	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts	$106,080	$64,530	2,760
83	Southeastern Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area, Oklahoma	$105,380	$59,050	40
84	Kansas nonmetropolitan area, Kansas	$105,320	$66,860	30
85	Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Michigan	$105,240	$64,330	1,080
86	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	$105,150	$74,190	40
87	Toledo, Ohio	$104,930	$69,910	70
88	New York-White Plains-Wayne, New York	$104,880	$56,570	1,630
89	Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas	$104,790	$62,210	50
90	Yuba City, California	$104,320	$63,420	n/a
91	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	$104,240	$61,480	40
92	East Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area, Pennsylvania	$103,970	$76,260	40
93	St Louis, Missouri	$103,870	$66,370	430
94	Central East New York nonmetropolitan area, New York	$103,650	$71,050	40
95	Taunton-Norton-Raynham, Massachusetts	$103,360	$68,130	n/a
96	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California	$103,310	$72,170	2,810
97	College Station-Bryan, Texas	$103,190	$68,500	n/a
98	Kansas City, Missouri	$103,150	$53,500	220
99	Trenton-Ewing, New Jersey	$103,050	$69,320	40
100	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California	$103,020	$70,740	110

See also: 💰 Highest paying industries for sales engineers.