San Francisco · United States
Mechanical Engineer salary in San Francisco
Pay for Mechanical Engineer in San Francisco, United States, worked out from salary-listed jobs there. Figures cover United States only and are never mixed with other currencies.
Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mechanical Engineers: official pay in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, May 2025
In the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, mechanical engineers (SOC 17-2141) earned a median $161,370 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 10th percentile
- $102,710
- 25th percentile
- $128,330
- Median
- $161,370
- 75th percentile
- $183,990
- 90th percentile
- $212,380
Occupation: Mechanical Engineers (SOC 17-2141) · 5,150 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area, all industries and employer sizes (self-employed excluded) — not only jobs that are advertised. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (metropolitan area data) (public domain), retrieved 1 Nov 2026.
Salary range
Where pay sits in San Francisco
- 10th percentile
- $178,920
- 25th percentile
- $189,000
- Median
- $271,500
- 75th percentile
- $360,500
- 90th percentile
- $366,500
5 salaries · 17 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile. Early reading from 5 salaries, not yet a reliable market median.
Compared with the United States median of 20 salaries: up +99.3%
Based on 5 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 31 Oct 2026