California · 2025 pay · 23 people
How much does a building maintenance engineer make in California?
$85,535typical pay for a building maintenance engineer in 2025
$77,556 – $97,346what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year workers. Typical pay rose 8.5% from 2024.
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- California State Controller's Office · sco.ca.gov ↗
- California State Controller's Office · sco.ca.gov ↗
- California State Controller's Office · sco.ca.gov ↗
Where building maintenance engineers work
Typical pay at each employer, 2025 (everyone paid).
Related jobs and the next step up
Same line of work at a different rank, by typical pay (full-year employees where we can tell).
- Building Maintenance Engineer (this page)$85,535 (everyone)
- Associate Building Maintenance Engineer$90,476 (everyone)
Highest-paid building maintenance engineers, 2025
Common questions
How much does a building maintenance engineer make in California?
The typical building maintenance engineer was paid $85,535 in 2025; most earned between $77,556 and $97,346. This counts all 23 people paid, including part-year workers.
How much of the pay is overtime?
Overtime made up 2.6% of all pay for building maintenance engineers in 2025.
Which job titles are included?
Everyone whose payroll title is Building Maintenance Engineer, at any level (for example "Building Maintenance Engineer"). Part-time-schedule titles (such as "20 hours") are left out. Senior, supervising and trainee titles have their own pages.
Job titles are written out in full from the payroll's abbreviations (for example "SR CRRECTNL POLC OFCR" → "Senior Correctional Police Officer"). "Typical pay" is the median; "most earned" is the middle half. How we calculate this