Electrical Engineers in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$91,160
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$34,210
27.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$83,723
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$125,370
Kept after tax
$91,160
Worth in national money
$83,723
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Jersey pays electrical engineers a middle wage of $125,370, ranking 12 of 49 states and sitting about 3.93% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Jersey. It ranks 53 out of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $125,370 the take-home is $91,160. But New Jersey costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $83,723 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $126,990, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Jersey's median for electrical engineers is $125,370, about 3.93% above the national figure and 12 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within New Jersey, electrical engineers ranks 53 of 490 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Jersey income tax is $91,160 for electrical engineers, from $125,370. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $83,723. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $126,990 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $80,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $125,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $174,450 |
| This salary | $125,370 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Jersey | $91,160 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $96,956 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$16,052 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $117,030 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$22,274 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $125,370 as a midpoint for New Jersey, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $80,630 and the ninetieth is $174,450 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $91,160 take-home in New Jersey comes from $125,370. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 53 of 490.
- Two cautions on $83,723, the adjusted value of that $125,370 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 53 of 490 locally.
- The New Jersey median of $125,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $80,630 to $174,450. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $91,160, from $125,370, assumes a single New Jersey filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 53 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 49 for it.
- This $83,723 adjusted figure, worked from $125,370, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 53 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 53 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $80,630, the highest tenth $174,450, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $83,723 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and New Jersey adds its own income tax on top — which is why $91,160 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($80,630) and the ninetieth ($174,450) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $83,723 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $91,160 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.