California / Water Resources / Mechanical Engineer
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
41 employees hold this title in Water Resources. Median total compensation for the role is $115,881, below the department median of $115,959.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 41 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 California, the median wage for Mechanical Engineers — about 30,530 people — is $130,900. Water Resources pays a median base salary of $108,787 for this role, 17% below that figure — about the 31st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Mechanical Engineers across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Water Resources’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Mechanical Engineers — about 296,810 people — is $104,110. Water Resources’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 54th 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 California range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 37 of 41 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 Water Resources is $115,881, 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
Mechanical Engineer is held in 8 California departments. In Water Resources, the median of $115,881 ranks #4 of 8.
Median total compensation for the Mechanical Engineer role in other Californiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In California, the median of $119,214 ranks #4 of 6. See Mechanical Engineer across all of California →
Median total compensation for comparable Mechanical 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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Mechanical Engineer/Water Resources
Source-specific fields
At Water Resources, Sid Adel serves as a Mechanical Engineer. They work intermittent. Their 2024 pay totaled $69,284. They are represented by R09.
Mechanical Engineer/Water Resources
Source-specific fields
Gilead Ghiliamichael works as a Mechanical Engineer for Water Resources. Their status is full-time. Gilead earned $62,354 in 2023. They are represented by R09.