Sales Engineers Career, Salary and Skills
Sales Engineers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $124,900 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 51,790. Wage data is published for 189 locations.
Occupation description
Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.
O*NET code
41-9031.00
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$124,900
Hourly median
$60.05
Employment
51,790
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Persuasion | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Speaking | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.88 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 4.00 | 3.88 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Negotiation | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Active Learning | 3.75 | 4.12 |
Typical tasks
- Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products, and to provide sales support.
- Create sales or service contracts for products or services.
- Visit prospective buyers at commercial, industrial, or other establishments to show samples or catalogs, and to inform them about product pricing, availability, and advantages.
- Keep informed on industry news and trends, products, services, competitors, relevant information about legacy, existing, and emerging technologies, and the latest product-line developments.
- Identify resale opportunities and support them to achieve sales plans.
- Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
- Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
- Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.
Technology
- Ab Initio
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Ansible software
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache HBase
- Apache Pig
- Apache Struts
- Apple iOS
- Atlassian JIRA
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Border Gateway Protocol BGP
- C
- C++
Sales Engineers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Sales Engineers Salary in TXMedian $130,610 · Employment 6,800
- Sales Engineers Salary in CAMedian $139,160 · Employment 6,310
- Sales Engineers Salary in New York, NYMedian $147,570 · Employment 3,440
- Sales Engineers Salary in NYMedian $137,480 · Employment 3,150
- Sales Engineers Salary in MAMedian $136,200 · Employment 3,150
- Sales Engineers Salary in COMedian $139,990 · Employment 2,800
- Sales Engineers Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $133,280 · Employment 2,690
- Sales Engineers Salary in NCMedian $121,530 · Employment 2,530
- Sales Engineers Salary in Boston, MAMedian $136,620 · Employment 2,410
- Sales Engineers Salary in FLMedian $125,530 · Employment 2,410
- Sales Engineers Salary in MIMedian $114,180 · Employment 2,290
- Sales Engineers Salary in Denver, COMedian $139,990 · Employment 2,010
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.