Sales Engineer salary
What a sales engineer actually earns, from 345 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.
Switch the market above to see sales engineer pay in the 2 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A sales engineer earns a blended US median near 153,450 dollars, with the typical middle running from 120,820 dollars to 193,055 dollars. The official OEWS median is 121,520 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 17 percent since 2019. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 120,348 dollars to 178,500 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 27% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is ai engineer, at 41 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open sales engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Partner Solutions Engineer, Southern Europe at CriblGermanyTodayApply
Senior Solutions Consultant at DiliTrustParis - La DéfenseTodayApply
Cloud Solutions Engineer – Azure at Bright Vision TechnologiesUnited States · Remote$100k–$150kTodayApply
Principal Thermal Solutions Engineer - Munich, Germany at Vinci4DMunich, Germany1d agoApply
Solutions Engineer at Canvas MedicalUnited States · Remote$120k–$160k1d agoApply
Solutions Engineer at Xage SecurityUnited States · Remote$180k–$220k1d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$120,820$153,450$193,055
- United Kingdom$59,009$75,040$138,994
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'509/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 24 Betriebswirte und vergleichbare Spezialisten: 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 114'108 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Arizona$169,470
- New Jersey$145,410
- Tennessee$144,030
- New York$137,700
- Colorado$136,080
- Virginia$135,080
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a sales engineer profile already covers.
- 600 open software engineer roles$185,617 median · +$32,167 · 29% readiness
- 53 open developer advocate roles$168,381 median · +$14,931 · 54% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a sales engineer.
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Related salaries
- AI Engineer salary$141,460 median
- Developer Advocate salary$168,381 median
- Prompt Engineer salary$109,200 median
Quick answers
How much does a sales engineer make?
The blended US median is about 153,450 dollars, with a typical range from 120,820 dollars to 193,055 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 121,520 dollars.
Is sales engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 27% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a sales engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is ai engineer, at 41 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 41-9031. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Sales engineers.” Live corpus 345 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.