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Civil Engineer Salary in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas

The annual salary statistics of civil engineers in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas is shown in Table 1. The wage information of civil engineers in Fort Worth-Arlington is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].

Table 1. Annual Salary of Civil Engineers in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas

Percentile BracketAverage Annual Salary
10th Percentile Wage
$55,670
25th Percentile Wage
$69,090
50th Percentile Wage
$87,750
75th Percentile Wage
$107,060
90th Percentile Wage
$134,180

Table 1 shows the average annual salary for civil engineers in Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $134,180. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $87,750. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $55,670.

Median salary trend

The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of civil engineers from 2012 to 2017.

YearMedian SalaryYearly Growth5-Year Growth
2017
$87,750
-2.78% 1.33%
2016
$90,190
4.60% -
2015
$86,040
-4.13% -
2014
$89,590
4.80% -
2013
$85,290
-1.51% -
2012
$86,580
- -

Table 2. Compare Civil Engineer Salary in Fort Worth-Arlington with Other Texas Cities

From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $87,750 in Fort Worth-Arlington is in the middle of salary range for civil engineers in state of Texas. In comparison, the annual salary of civil engineers in Fort Worth-Arlington is 7.2 percent (7.2%) lower than that in the highest paying Beaumont-Port Arthur and 30.2 percent (30.2%) higher than that in the lowest paying Abilene.

Cities/Areas Median Annual Salary
Beaumont-Port Arthur
$94,570
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
$92,090
Fort Worth-Arlington
$87,750
Dallas-Plano-Irving
$87,390
Corpus Christi
$86,510
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
$85,920
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
$85,210
Midland
$81,530
San Antonio-New Braunfels
$81,070
College Station-Bryan
$80,610
Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood
$77,080
Gulf Coast Texas nonmetropolitan area
$76,600
Victoria
$75,670
Longview
$75,450
Tyler
$74,090
Odessa
$73,420
San Angelo
$72,590
Texarkana-Texarkana
$70,860
Laredo
$69,510
Southern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$67,790
Waco
$67,660
El Paso
$67,270
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
$67,200
Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$67,040
Lubbock
$65,460
Sherman-Denison
$64,600
Brownsville-Harlingen
$64,220
North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$63,960
Amarillo
$62,610
Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$62,400
Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$62,400
Wichita Falls
$62,300
Abilene
$61,210