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Blockchain Engineers Salary in DC

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Blockchain Engineers in DC have a median annual salary of $156,590, with 17,200 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $87,400 at the 10th percentile to $207,700 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$156,590

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$75.29

Employment

17,200

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$87,400
10th
$123,360
25th
$156,590
Median
$180,480
75th
$207,700
90th

Local compared with national

DC

$156,590

Median annual · 2025

United States

$116,580

Median annual · 2025

The DC median is 34.3% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $40,010).

Top skills

  1. 1.Reading ComprehensionImportance 4.0
  2. 2.Active ListeningImportance 3.8
  3. 3.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.8
  4. 4.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.6
  5. 5.Active LearningImportance 3.5
  6. 6.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.5
  7. 7.ProgrammingImportance 3.4
  8. 8.Systems AnalysisImportance 3.4
  9. 9.Time ManagementImportance 3.4
  10. 10.WritingImportance 3.3
  11. 11.SpeakingImportance 3.3
  12. 12.Systems EvaluationImportance 3.3

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
Job zone
4

Technology used

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service ECS
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
  • Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Ansible software
  • Apache Kafka
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • Docker
  • Enterprise application integration EAI software
  • Git

Common tasks

  • Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
  • Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
  • Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
  • Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
  • Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.
  • Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
  • Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
  • Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
  • Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.
  • Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.

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