Earnings
 Earnings
for engineers vary significantly by specialty, industry, and education.
Even so, as a group, engineers earn some of the highest average starting
salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees.
 Salary
Data
According the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the median annual wage for computer hardware engineers was $117,220 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $68,460, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $185,240. In May 2019, the median annual wages for computer hardware engineers in the top industries in which they worked were as follow:
| Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing |
$140,840 |
| Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences |
$132,450 |
| Federal government |
$113,430 |
| Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing |
$113,050 |
| Computer systems design and related services |
$111,610 |
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Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the
US Department
of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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