City of Charlotte / Stw Engineering and Design / Engineering Project Manager
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
29 employees hold this title in Stw Engineering and Design. Median total compensation for the role is $102,886, below the department median of $106,002.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 29 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, the median wage for Architectural and Engineering Managers — about 1,830 people — is $169,960. Stw Engineering and Design pays a median base salary of $102,886 for this role, 39% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Architectural and Engineering Managers across every employer in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Stw Engineering and Design’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Architectural and Engineering Managers — about 220,260 people — is $171,270. Stw Engineering and Design’s median base salary is 40% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Stw Engineering and Design is $102,886, 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.
Compare departments
Engineering Project Manager is held in 14 City of Charlotte departments. In Stw Engineering and Design, the median of $102,886 ranks #6 of 14.
Median total compensation for the Engineering Project Manager role in other City of Charlottedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In City of Charlotte, the median of $102,884 ranks #2 of 2. See Engineering Project Manager across all of City of Charlotte →
Median total compensation for comparable Engineering Project Managerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Engineering Project Manager/Stw Engineering and Design
Source-specific fields
Miranda O'Dell is a Engineering Project Manager at Stw Engineering and Design within Stw. They work full-time. 2026 total compensation came to $99,825.