City of Los Angeles / Electrical Engineer
Role across City of Los Angeles
Electrical Engineer
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
127 people hold the Electrical Engineer role across 1 department in City of Los Angeles, with a median total compensation of $145,865. Among 8 jurisdictions where this role is reported, City of Los Angeles ranks #1 by median pay.
- Employees
- 127
- Median pay
- $145,865
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #1 of 8
Compared with the local labor market
Electrical Engineer pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Electrical Engineers — about 8,970 people — is $139,780. City of Los Angeles pays a median base salary of $97,002 for this role, 31% below that figure — about the 21st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City of Los Angeles sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Electrical Engineers across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows City of Los Angeles’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Electrical Engineers — about 198,750 people — is $120,630. City of Los Angeles’s median base salary is 20% below that national figure, about the 29th 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at City of Los Angeles is $145,865, 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 jurisdictions
Electrical Engineer pay in other jurisdictions
Where Electrical Engineers are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Electrical Engineerroles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.