Electronics Engineering

Across all employers in the United States, the median wage for Electronics Engineers, Except Computer — about 96,900 people — is $130,220. Federal Communications Commission pays a median base salary of $181,216 for this role, 39% above that figure — about the 80th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Federal Communications Commission is $181,850, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Electronics Engineering is held in 20 U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense) departments. In Federal Communications Commission, the median of $181,850 ranks #2 of 20.