City of San Jose / Fire / Fire Engineer
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
215 employees hold this title in Fire. Median total compensation for the role is $287,816, above the department median of $270,889.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 215 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, the median wage for Firefighters — about 1,330 people — is $152,100. Fire pays a median base salary of $173,484 for this role, 14% above that figure — about the 82nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Firefighters across every employer in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fire’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Firefighters — about 345,990 people — is $59,280. Fire’s median base salary is 193% above that national figure, above the 90th 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 211 of 215 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Fire is $287,816, 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
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In City of San Jose, the median of $287,816 ranks #1 of 5. See Fire Engineer across all of City of San Jose →
Median total compensation for comparable Fire Engineerroles 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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Matthew Topping holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $337,530.
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Miran Meric holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $337,434.
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Salvador Gutierrez is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $337,205.
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Lee Taylor holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $336,032.
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Nicholas Long holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $335,737.
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Carl England is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $335,134.
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Christopher Berger is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $334,683.
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At Fire, Andrew Mills serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $333,817.
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At Fire, Richard Bastas serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $332,567.
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At Fire, Holger Blech serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $331,136.
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Daniel Vella holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $331,010.
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At Fire, Eric Lyle serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $330,419.
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Thomas Correa holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $328,735.
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Brandon Ragan holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $326,183.
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Robert Cone works as a Fire Engineer for Fire. Robert earned $325,381 in 2025.
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Michael Hidalgo works as a Fire Engineer for Fire. Michael earned $324,641 in 2025.
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At Fire, Ludwin Marroquin-Cifuentes serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $323,665.
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Bryan Harward is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $323,479.
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At Fire, Serafin Jr serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $322,648.
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Anthony Dixon is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $322,138.
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Cameron Conroy is a Fire Engineer at Fire. 2025 total compensation came to $321,518.
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Brian Madison holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $320,753.
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At Fire, Paul Estrada serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $319,365.
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Justin Davis holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $318,761.
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Muizz Hassanali works as a Fire Engineer for Fire. Muizz earned $318,562 in 2025.
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Marco Cornelio holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fire. In 2025, their total compensation was $317,209.