Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
What the pay figures show
- Wyoming comes first for this job on every measure. $99,840 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $87,033 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians, Wyoming's $99,840 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $87,033. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$78,190
People doing it
95,130
Highest paid
$99,840
WY
Best off, really
$87,033
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$49,510
Highest tenth
$115,700
Lowest, really
$53,402
DE
States with data
51
National average
$80,680
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $53,402 and $87,033. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Only 95,130 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Every state reports this one. All 51 jurisdictions publish a figure, and the middle wage is $78,190, so the comparison above leaves nobody out.
- Interstate variation for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $53,402 to $87,033. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- National employment in electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians is 95,130. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- All 51 jurisdictions publish an occupational median for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians, so the spread described above is a complete national range rather than a range across a reported subset.
Pay band: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,700 |
| This salary | $78,190 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
$78,190around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $49,510 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $78,190 |
| Top tenth | $115,700 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | South Dakota · $58,340 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Wyoming · $99,840 |
| Spread | $41,500 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $74,050 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $76,203 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $99,840 | $79,067 | $87,033 |
| NM | $96,070 | $73,039 | $80,808 |
| ND | $80,930 | $65,445 | $73,889 |
| RI | $98,600 | $74,864 | $73,822 |
| LA | $82,990 | $65,110 | $73,700 |
| WV | $85,440 | $65,913 | $73,423 |
| NV | $88,160 | $70,851 | $73,057 |
| AK | $92,760 | $74,087 | $72,837 |
| MS | $81,180 | $62,785 | $71,925 |
| OK | $80,880 | $62,590 | $70,895 |
| MT | $82,050 | $63,277 | $70,118 |
| MD | $95,830 | $72,058 | $69,310 |
| WA | $93,930 | $74,910 | $69,002 |
| IA | $74,840 | $59,248 | $66,745 |
| IL | $85,510 | $64,898 | $65,650 |
| ID | $77,170 | $59,882 | $65,499 |
| DC | $97,620 | $72,176 | $65,139 |
| ME | $83,440 | $63,206 | $65,096 |
| HI | $96,200 | $70,639 | $65,039 |
| AR | $69,960 | $55,917 | $64,638 |
| AL | $74,500 | $58,059 | $64,531 |
| NC | $76,040 | $59,799 | $63,522 |
| TX | $74,050 | $60,924 | $62,695 |
| GA | $78,070 | $60,455 | $62,519 |
| MO | $72,120 | $57,114 | $62,242 |
| SC | $73,450 | $57,948 | $62,191 |
| MI | $74,800 | $58,524 | $62,137 |
| PA | $76,070 | $60,010 | $61,549 |
| AZ | $77,960 | $62,128 | $61,449 |
| IN | $70,540 | $56,403 | $61,186 |
| MN | $78,280 | $60,100 | $61,067 |
| WI | $71,880 | $56,585 | $60,781 |
| KS | $70,310 | $54,658 | $60,755 |
| VT | $74,760 | $58,600 | $60,640 |
| VA | $79,540 | $60,973 | $60,520 |
| NJ | $85,510 | $65,729 | $60,367 |
| CT | $81,390 | $62,361 | $60,143 |
| CO | $77,440 | $60,610 | $59,784 |
| UT | $72,670 | $56,720 | $59,704 |
| FL | $73,190 | $60,319 | $58,306 |
| NH | $74,560 | $61,283 | $58,174 |
| CA | $86,090 | $65,480 | $58,163 |
| NE | $65,490 | $52,525 | $58,118 |
| TN | $63,750 | $53,403 | $57,724 |
| KY | $64,120 | $51,574 | $57,008 |
| OH | $63,300 | $52,017 | $56,656 |
| SD | $58,340 | $49,056 | $55,686 |
| MA | $77,710 | $59,933 | $55,372 |
| NY | $77,040 | $59,464 | $55,251 |
| OR | $77,990 | $57,422 | $54,833 |
| DE | $67,360 | $53,003 | $53,402 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $78,190, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Wyoming keeps the most at $79,067.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Delaware sits at the bottom on $53,402.
- These are distribution medians for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians, with a national value of $78,190. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- The household modeled for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Wyoming retains the most, $79,067. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Delaware at $53,402. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Delaware anchors the bottom at $53,402 — and the two source series are dated independently.