Aerospace Engineer salary
What an aerospace engineer actually earns, from 101 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
What the number means
An aerospace engineer earns a blended US median near 129,497 dollars, with the typical middle running from 110,749 dollars to 157,912 dollars. The official OEWS median is higher, 134,830 dollars, because job ads skew toward the roles that pay below the occupation-wide average. The official trend has moved up about 16 percent since 2019. Demand is rated moderate, and 2% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 26 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open aerospace engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Flight Test Engineer & Onsite Test Coordinator (all genders) at StarkBerlin1d agoApply- SUPERVISORY AEROSPACE ENGINEER at Air Force Safety CenterKirtland AFB, New Mexico$150k–$194k2d agoApply
- SUPERVISORY AEROSPACE ENGINEER at U.S. Army Aviation and Missile CommandFort Eustis, Virginia$128k–$195k2d agoApply
- WEAPONS TEST & EVALUATION FLIGHT TEST ENGINEER at Naval Air Systems CommandChina Lake, California$104k–$161k2d agoApply
- AEROSPACE ENGINEER-DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY at Air Force Materiel CommandMultiple Locations$90k–$138k5d agoApply
Principal Flight Test Engineer - CH-47F Platform Systems (Onsite) at Raytheon TechnologiesHuntsville, AL1w agoApply
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Washington$158,600
- Maryland$158,220
- Colorado$151,570
- California$143,860
- Alabama$133,080
- Virginia$132,160
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Quick answers
How much does an aerospace engineer make?
The blended US median is about 129,497 dollars, with a typical range from 110,749 dollars to 157,912 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 134,830 dollars.
Is aerospace engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated moderate in our July 2026 corpus, with 2% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can an aerospace engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is mechanical engineer, at 26 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 17-2011. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Aerospace engineers.” Live corpus 101 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.