California · 2025 pay · 5 people
How much does a principal engineer drinking water program make in California?
$22,661typical pay for a principal engineer drinking water program in 2025
$19,680 – $47,811what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year workers. Typical pay rose 19.9% from 2024.
✓ Official data from California State Controller's Office · Matches the agency's latest release · sco.ca.gov ↗
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Highest-paid principal engineer drinking water programs, 2025
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How much does a principal engineer drinking water program make in California?
The typical principal engineer drinking water program was paid $22,661 in 2025; most earned between $19,680 and $47,811. This counts all 5 people paid, including part-year workers.
How much of the pay is overtime?
Overtime made up 0.0% of all pay for principal engineer drinking water programs in 2025.
Which job titles are included?
Everyone whose payroll title is Principal Engineer Drinking Water Program, at any level (for example "Principal Engineer Drinking Water Program"). 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